Ingenious Statements Quotes & Sayings

Life is all about conflict. The pursuit of happiness - that's life, not the achievement. It's all about the journey, my friend. — Michael J. Sullivan

I hate people. People make me pro-nuclear. — Margaret Smith

In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it makes us feel. Here there seem to be no problems with a purely mental state account, no counterpart to the experience machine that could bring us to think that we are being deceived by mere appearances. [ ... ] If I am suffering physical pain then I can be quite wrong about the organic cause of my affliction, or even about whether it has one, without that error diminishing in the slightest either the reality of my pain or its impact on the quality of my life. — L. W. Sumner

Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong. — Anne Fadiman

The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when — Margaret Atwood

The truth doesn't care what anyone wants. The truth is innocent. You can't blame the truth. — Glen Duncan

I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant it's probably feminine. This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and rollerblade. I have no problem learning the words themselves, it's the sexes that trip me up and refuse to stick. — David Sedaris

Temper, temper, wee English. 'Tis truly most becoming to you. — Karen Marie Moning

But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating for an hour, or perhaps a day, but then they subside. — Sam Harris

Jesus. I do not wanna be called a vampire n-word. — Andrea Portes

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw — Robert A. Heinlein

Available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. — Marianne Williamson

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied. — Melanie Klein

Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. — Sheri Reynolds