Nicole Beale Quotes & Sayings

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular. — Anatole Broyard

Adding more bull to bull yields bigger bull. — Cathy Burnham Martin

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile and limited creatures like you and I. I am against the idea of clean, clearly distinct epochs in the history of philosophy or indeed in anything else. I think that history is always messy, contingent, plural and material. I am against the constant revenge of idealism in how we think about history. — Simon Critchley

I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky. — Marcel Proust

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well. — Eric Bogosian

The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns. — Bryant McGill

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The first millennium BC witnessed the appearance of three potentially universal orders, whose devotees could for the first time imagine the entire world and the entire human race as a single unit governed by a single set of laws. Everyone was 'us', at least potentially. There was no longer 'them'. The first universal order to appear was economic: the monetary order. The second universal order was political: the imperial order. The third universal order was religious: the order of universal religions such as Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. — Yuval Noah Harari

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species. — Henry James

Science is proving it now and the old spiritual books said it centuries ago that negative thoughts are the primary source of all the internal and external diseases/illnesses! — Maddy Malhotra

So many stories lived behind my eyes. I carried the people I hurt, the lies I told, my sick relationship with food, wherever I went. My mind was rarely grounded in the moment. My past was heavy and constant; my thoughts wouldn't leave me alone. But when I was with the shelter dogs, I didn't have anything to hide. Sometimes what existed behind my eyes fell away. I wasn't bulimic or unlovable or fat or a liar. I was a part of life again. I was an observer, and to more than just the dark cyclical patterns of the mind - here was the strong, sturdy presence of another - the breath moving in and out of Angel's chest, the beating of her heart, the force of life moving through her and through me. — Shannon Kopp

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. — Alan Perlis

When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things. — Vin Diesel

Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared. — G.R. Gopinath