Langsdorf Tie Quotes & Sayings

Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature? — Dada Bhagwan

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence. — Anne Michaels

A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe. — Timothy Egan

Orba (feminine), the Latin word for orphaned, parentless, childless, widowed. There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity. But it has. Orbus, orba, orbum, orbi, orbae, orborum, orbo, orbis... — Jacqueline Woodson

Yeah, sure. You know I can't stand the sight of blood, right?"
"Said no one ever while dating a vampire," he quipped
"Very clever. Ten points to Gryffindor. — Kristi Cook

This is the situation in the public schools of America: The farther you travel from the classroom the greater your financial and professional rewards. — Frank McCourt

Conformity is one of the nihilistic temptations of rebellion which dominate a large part of our intellectual history. It demonstrates how the rebel who takes to action is tempted to succumb, if he forgets his origins, to the most absolute conformity. And so it explains the twentieth century. Lautreamont, who is usually hailed as the bard of pure rebellion, on the contrary proclaims the advent of the taste for intellectual servitude which flourishes in the contemporary world. — Albert Camus

Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most of the president's advisers said, "This is probably not going to work." A lot of people in the military said, "This is probably not going to work." — Michael Hastings

Say my name,' he pleaded. 'Just tell me who I am.' 'Gamelyn,' it was soft as swan down — J. Tullos Hennig

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. — Cormac McCarthy

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive. — Ryan Reynolds

I liked the warmth of her body against mine and realized the pathos of being a human. Of being a mortal creature who was essentially alone but needed the myth of togetherness with others. Friends, children, lovers. It was an attractive myth. It was a myth you could easily inhabit. — Matt Haig

Psychotherapy seeks for an improvement in neurotic balance. Letting go, however, eliminates it all together. — David R. Hawkins