Nerfing Quotes & Sayings

And it's ridiculous that anyone would praise a child for standing with arms spread out on a wooden cross, as if she were Jesus's dead sister wearing a checkerboard tablecloth. — Amy Tan

The only way to have it all and feel truly loved is by knowing who your soul is. You are loved entirely by God — Kevin Hunter

Tomorrow we will do beautiful things. — Antonio Gaudi

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid. — Patrick J. Adams

What?" I ask.
"I'm developing a theory."
"And it is?"
She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish. — Veronica Roth

Just because you're the same kind doesn't mean you're all one happy family. The important thing is to understand each other. That's love! — Sun-mi Hwang

We are all the fruits of pleasure's toil. — Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

Menopause: it had to be the gods' ironic warning to (or just plain nasty trick on) humanity for having artificially extended the life span, — Haruki Murakami

We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways. Someone said to me the other day, "What our adolescents need is not so much health care, but healthy caring," and I agree. Parents and churches need to provide that. Curricula in our schools [need to] provide that. — Joycelyn Elders

Show me a day when the world wasn't new. - Sister Barbara Hance — Leeana Tankersley

It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of. — Paul Walker

But Zeus did not tell Aphrodite that age was catching up on him. And that Gods, just as Mortal men, suffered from Erectile Dysfunction. And that the daily harvesting of his sperm sacs by Hera & Themis in order to provide three amphoras full of seed had not helped.
And that thus, he, just as all those who suffered from Erectile Dysfunction, actually preferred catching oysters & eating them rather than deflowering the owners of the oysters. And thus, the Big Crunch that had been planned, now risked becoming the Big Bathos, the Big Let Down. — Nicholas Chong

Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the moment when the thinking-feeling has surpassed the author's need to thinking - he no longer needs to think and now finds himself close to the grandeur of the nothing. I could say of the "everything". But "everything" is a quanitity, and quantity has a limit in its very beginning. The true incommensurability is the nothing, which has no barriers adn where a person can scatter their thinking-feeling. — Clarice Lispector