Mnemosyne Project Quotes & Sayings

These eight independent satellite states of the psychopathic personality
Machiavellian Egocentricity, Impulsive Nonconformity, Blame Externalization, Carefree Nonplanfulness, Fearlessness, Social Potency, Stress Immunity, and Coldheartedness. — Kevin Dutton

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

We are so accustomed to thinking of European civilization as the vanguard of the world that we forget that for much of human history, the European peninsula was at the receiving end of the miracles of the East. Over the millennia, innovations such as Mesopotamian agriculture, the Phoenician alphabet, Greek philosophy, and Arab bookkeeping all flowed from east to west. Both Christianity and Islam followed the same route. So did wheat, olives, sugar, and spices. — Michael Krondl

What you felt, the beast that swallowed you all and spat you back out, that is the great big bloody point of all this. If you learn nothing else from this bizarre and awkward experience--this gathering of strangers to blow into horns and pluck catgut--remember that you have the power to feel that. The power to create that. With your hands. Your breath. You are gods, children, and you can make war. — Kate Racculia

Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato. — Gail Porter

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast. — Mitch Albom

The measure of a man is not in how he gets knocked to the mat, it is in how he gets up. — Jeph Loeb

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core. — Lisa Randall

The ship had come sweeping in over a dark and somber landscape, a terrain so desperately far removed from the heat and light of its parent sun, Sol, that it seemed like a map of the psychological scars of the mind of an abandoned child. — Douglas Adams

The only reason I lost to Aldo Montoya was the intoxicating fumes there were coming off his body from being around Jake Roberts. — Jerry Lawler

I needed a shower with my detachable sprayer. In my opinion, every girl should have one for her cleansing pleasure. — Eve Langlais

Air you breathe holds the breath of all things. — Alison McGhee

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes. — Curt Weldon