Mascalls Mouse Quotes & Sayings

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible. — Toni Morrison

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be. — Jennifer Westfeldt

The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. — Richard Dawkins

She was the one who showed me all the dark wonders of life, the real life, the life I'd only seen flickering from the corner of my eye. Did I ever feel anything at all until she showed me what feeling meant? Pushing at the corners of her cramped world with curled fists, she showed me what it meant to live. — Megan Abbott

Right is what all this is about," Roland said. "But if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. — Stephen King

The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality. — Ehab Atalla

I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying one of the negative emotions, like fear, anger, anxiety, or depression. I wondered why no scientists cared to explain why we humans sometimes feel upbeat and pleasant. I liked the idea of charting new terrain. It's been a fun intellectual puzzle. There's so much to discover! — Barbara Fredrickson

I was in love with the sound of the slamming door, it sounded the way i felt, like damn you to hell! and i hate what you're doing to me! and Life sucks. — Ellen Wittlinger

The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful. — Olaf Stapledon

The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality. — Dada Bhagwan

Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that? — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

people who didn't talk about their problems got to pretend they didn't have any. People who discussed what was wrong, on the other hand, fought and ached and felt miserable. — Jodi Picoult

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'. — Kamand Kojouri

You can't drink 'English afternoon tea' in the morning," the barista said to her, his eyes blazing like shards of crystal meth about to ignite. "Do you want to be responsible for fucking up the universe? — Christa Carmen

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness. — Chogyam Trungpa