Nonfeasance Misfeasance Quotes & Sayings

I have only one curiosity left: death. — Coco Chanel

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.' — Michelle Gomez

No one owes you anything. — Timothy Ferriss

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must first
understand the nature of the force behind its existence. — Reid A. Ashbaucher

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. — David Eagleman

Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water. — Mooji

In Cold Blood is the story of these six people - the [four] Clutters, who died together November 15, 1959, and Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, who were hanged April 14, 1965. And my book is the story of their lives and their deaths. It's a completely factual account and every word is true.

- Truman Capote, interviewed in A Visit with Truman Capote, Maysles Films, 1966 (alternate title: With Love From Truman). — Truman Capote

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award. — Shari Sebbens

Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth. — Olivia Laing

Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn't make you a weak person. It's hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it's a maybe. A 'maybe someday things won't always be this shit.' And that 'maybe' immediately makes the shittiness better. — Cecelia Ahern

Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical reordering of American foreign policy. — Stephen Kinzer