Nemecky Quotes & Sayings

Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition. — Alexander Lowen

Self conquest is the greatest of victories. — Plato

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life. — Charles Kennedy

When the anesthesia of love wears off,
you suffer the pain of consequence. — Amy Tan

The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships. — Sharon Salzberg

In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out. — Richard Baxter

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting. — Paul Gauguin

You've never been to school, ever? If that's true and you're right, I don't think it is - what made you decide to come this year?"
"You. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Acting is all about likability. — Clive Owen

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. — John Abizaid

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people. — Tristram Stuart

Words can't change my face — R.J. Palacio

No doubt, I had some kind of carefully designed pattern for living before my son came. Some strategy for defining myself. Whatever that pattern was, it is long gone. Levered out of the way by a tool so powerful no force on earth can resist it. — Mark Greene

I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It's a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different ... the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job. — Clint Howard

Why do we care about singers? Wherein lies the power of songs? Maybe it derives from the sheer strangeness of there being singing in the world. The note, the scale, the chord; melodies, harmonies, arrangements; symphonies, ragas, chinese operas,jazz, the blues: that such things should exist, that we should have discovered the magical intervals and distances that yield the poor cluster of notes, all within the span of a human hand from which we can build our cathedrals of sound, is alchemical a mystery as mathematics, or wine, or love. Maybe the birds taught us. Maybe not. Maybe we are just creatures in search of exaltation. We don't have much of it. Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many painful ways deficient. Song turns them into something else. Song shows us a world that is worthy of our yearning, it shows us our selves as they might be, if we were worthy of the world. — Salman Rushdie