Jeisa E Quotes & Sayings

The more critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes. When reason is overvalued, the individual suffers a loss. Relying more on facts and rationality than on imagination and theory detracts from the quality of a person's intellectual life. — C. G. Jung

I was shocked to have to admit to myself that not only had I accepted a complex theory somewhat uncritically, but that I had also actually noticed quite a bit of what was wrong, in the theory as well as in the practice of communism. But I had repressed this -partly out of loyalty to my friends, partly out of loyalty to "the cause", and partly because there is a mechanism of getting oneself more and more deeply involved: once one has sacrificed one's intellectual conscience over a minor point one doesn't wish to give in too easily; one wishes to justify the self-sacrifice by convincing oneself of the fundamental goodness of the cause, which is seen to outweigh any little moral or intellectual compromise that maybe required. With every such moral or intellectual sacrifice one gets more deeply involved. One becomes ready to back one's moral or intellectual investments in the cause with further investments. It's like being eager to throw good money after bad. — Karl R. Popper

My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business. — Karen Mills

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer. — Walter Annenberg

How different it all was from what you'd planned. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing. — Kathy Bates

As you have sown so shall you reap. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't want any special powers. I'm powerless. I wouldn't want to see into the future, I wouldn't want to know what anyone was thinking, ever! And I don't want to relive my past. — Nikki Reed

Never' is an unquantifiable and unrealistic amount of time. — Ruth Cardello

Katya liked the asshole-Wulf, she admitted to him. She liked that he was brash and blunt and even sometimes rude. — Stylo Fantome