Name Dropping Psychology Quotes & Sayings

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew. — Markus Zusak

The most important thing, married or single, is that you can't compare your life to overly simplified fantasy figures on TV, in movies, or in magazines. Every human being is unique. Every relationship is unique. If you're in it, it's your job to find out what's unique about it. I don't think you should be in a relationship and downgrade it because it doesn't look the same as some Hollywood image. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it. — Herman Melville

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm — Michael Cunningham

Then he shows up one night, drunk, and screams at Scott in a mixture of German and English, calling Scott the American Communist boiling-potter, a phrase her husband treasures to the end of his days. Scott, far from sober himself (in Germany Scott and sober rarely even exchange postcards), at one point offers the sonofabitching landlord a cigarette and tells him Goinzee on! — Stephen King

Everybody dies alone, Jameson said, and kept going. Not everybody wakes up right after. — Holly Black

No plan of battle survives first contact, — Robert Jordan

And he sat in the corner and laughed as the flames consumed everything, crawling over the sadness and crackling it with life. — Andersen Prunty

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. — Noam Chomsky