Nominally Significant Quotes & Sayings

From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop. — Herman Melville

As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.I remember he said that, because I've thought of it ever since, the idea that we don't stray far, that what feels like discovery is only the revealing of what was hidden but there, waiting. — David Vann

The meanest interests of all His saints are all borne upon the broad bosom of the Son of God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

They should put their clothes on if they could find them which might be difficult in the darkness.
He decided that could wait until dawn. — Shelly Thacker

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons. — Chuck Hagel

her on the dorm board. We had only twenty girls in a batch of two hundred. Goodlooking ones were rare; girls don't get selected to IIM for their looks. They get in because they can solve mathematical problems faster than 99.99% of India's population and crack the CAT. Most IIM girls are above shallow things like makeup, fitting clothes, contact lenses, removal of facial hair, body odour and feminine charm. Girls like Ananya, if and when they arrive by freak chance, become instant pin-ups in out testosterone-charged, estrogen-starved campus. — Anonymous

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd. — Dale Carnegie

I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour. — Pattie Boyd

This original tie with the body as with something "peculiarly one's own" is the basis of all individual development. Later the ego relates to the body, to its superior powers, and to the unconscious - with which its processes are largely identified - in a different and even contrary way. As the higher principle working through the head and consciousness, the ego comes into conflict with the body, and this conflict sometimes leads to a neurotic, partial dissociation which, however, is only the product of a later overdifferentiation. — Erich Neumann

After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever. — Calvin Miller

Did you knew that the key for heaven opens and the gate for hell. — Deyth Banger

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right. — John Oliver

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. — Iris Marion Young

If the staff does not begin with a discussion on values and instead begins by gathering and analyzing data, the process becomes head-driven. This will lead to a tendency to rationalize and assign blame: — Linda Dier