Nomicon Quotes & Sayings

Our emotions stem from our thoughts, redirect your thoughts to redirect your emotions. — Sam Owen

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all. — Mary Fisher

Nature has inclined us to love men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

He was colossal (apparently they felt behemoth was easier to spell). — Emily Devenport

Garch a har?" -Oddjob, Goldfinger — Ian Fleming

I feel I've done the 10,000 hours you have to do to get good at something. — Graeme Simsion

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. — Marilyn Monroe

A world without God to give people faith that all their suffering is not meaningless is a nightmare. A world without religion means a world without any systematic way of ennobling people. A world without countries is a world without the United States of America, and it is a world governed by the amoral United Nations, where mass murderers sit on "human rights" councils. A world without heaven or hell is a world without any ultimate justice, where torturers and their victims have identical fates. A world without possessions is a world in which some enormous state possesses everything, and the individual is reduced to the status of a well-fed serf. Liberals frequently criticize conservatives for fearing change. What we fear is transforming that which is already good. The moral record of humanity does not fill us with optimism about "fundamentally transforming" something as rare as America. Evil is normal. America is not. — Dennis Prager

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time. — Neil Young

Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you. — Kelli Garner

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this. — Jeff Foxworthy

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. — Jean De La Bruyere

It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos in English. The plots that entangle our souls and draw forth our characters are the great myths. That is why we need a sense of myth and knowledge of different myths to gain insight into our epic struggles, our misalliances, and our tragedies. Myths show the imaginative structures inside our messes, and our human characters can locate themselves against the background of the characters of myth. — James Hillman

Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people. — Micah Lexier

Life, it's life we deal with ... He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live. — Bob Marley