Metastable State Quotes & Sayings

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.'
Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love ... — Lorrie Moore

I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded. — Trieste Kelly Dunn

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule. — Sydney, Lady Morgan

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas. — Isabel Wilkerson

Then nothing was ever again as it had been. You don't think things like that can happen. Then you find out they both can and will. So, — Richard Ford

If we think of belonging only as membership in a club, organization, or church, we miss the point. Belonging is the risk to move beyond the world we know, to venture out on pilgrimage, to accept exile. And it is the risk of being with companions on that journey, God, a spouse, friends, children, mentors, teachers, people who came from the same place we did, people who came from entirely different places, saints and sinners of all sorts, those known to us and those unknown, our secret longings, questions, and fears. — Diana Butler Bass

You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone. — Bob Proctor

Stone announced in early April that if delegates at the Republican National Convention had the nerve to switch from Trump to another candidate, "we will disclose [their] hotels and room numbers." Anderson — Jon Ronson

Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror. — Mike Yaconelli

Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon — V.C. Andrews

The world is exactly the same as it was before, except that Americans now realize that they are a part of it. People get blown up every day, but not until Americans started getting blown up within our own borders by people who aren't Americans did it become real to us.
The world has not changed, but our attention has been called to it. We are looking directly at the sun now, and it is blinding us. We need the same books we always have; we need our friends and hobbies and meaningful work; and we need them quick, to provide the dark glasses that will let us watch the eclipse, and respond to it usefully, and not go mad. — Peni Griffin

What saddened and incensed her was the abdication of power, so craven, the surrender so close to home. And power was what she was in for. Nicola had lived deliciously, but she was promiscuous on principle, as a sign of emancipation, of spiritual freedom, freedom from men. She was, she believed, without appetite, and prided herself on her passionless brilliance in bed. But then the subtle rearrangement, and the abject whisper ... and it poisoned everything, somehow. — Martin Amis

Kill him? Would that be it? No man knew better than he the tricks that Destiny plays on a man, or how often the right man dies at the wrong time and place. A man never wore a gun without inviting trouble, he never stepped into a street and began the gunman's walk without the full knowledge that he might be a shade too slow, that some small thing might disturb him just long enough! — Louis L'Amour

When we see ourselves through another's eyes, we gain valuable insight and direction. — Deborah Sandella