Noninterfering Quotes & Sayings

Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don't happen. It's the book you wrote; that's all. — Samuel R. Delany

When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards. — Philip Zimbardo

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that. — Pat Benatar

Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs. — William Shakespeare

Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall. — Jeff Goodell

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet. — Hermann Von Helmholtz

Who's the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who's horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other? — Rebecca Stead