Nimmer Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently. — David Graeber

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing. — Elizabeth Warren

How thankful I am, how thankful we all must be, for the women in our lives. God bless them. May His great love distill upon them and crown them with luster and beauty, grace and faith. — Gordon B. Hinckley

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours. — George Eliot

My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward. — Bob Saget

But the wine had muffled the voices, making it harder for her to read the intentions of the man sitting next to her. — Elizabeth Hunter

..you can't just break through a person's defenses like thatl the defenses are a part of the person, they are the person. It's our nature to have hidden depths. It's like...skinning a frog and saying, 'Now I understand this frog, because I've seen what's inside it.' But when you skin it, it dies. You haven't understood a frog, you've understood a corpse. — Raphael Carter

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge. — Ayn Rand

When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet — Thom Yorke

To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills. — George Steiner

If you are failure today, make yourself hopeful for tomorrow. People often say tomorrow never comes. But tomorrow is a hope and hope never dies. — Rakesh Wadhwani

Please be careful," he repeated. "Come back safe."
"I will." On impulse I took off my cross necklace and pressed it into his hand. "This time, keep it for real. Hold onto it until I return. If you get too worried, look at it and know that I'll have to come back for it. It goes really well with khakis and neutral colors. — Richelle Mead

So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip ... In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. — Henry David Thoreau

I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling. — Carrie Brownstein