Nonreflexive Quotes & Sayings

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. — Thomas Hood

As people's capacities wane, whether through age or ill health, making their lives better often requires curbing our purely medical imperatives - resisting the urge to fiddle and fix and control. — Atul Gawande

But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. — Clive Barker

Being nonreactive to destructive or hostile behaviour does not imply passive acceptance of it. Rather, it means we need to deal with it, take off our blinders and see the unacceptable. To redirect the destructive enery, we must dance with the shadow, not kill it. When we can achieve this stance, we learn to confront maladaptive or nonproductive behaviour matter-of-factly, without becoming embroiled in the heat of our own emotions. This nonreflexive style of being in the world is potent. — Adele Von Rust McCormick

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions. — Amanda Donohoe

As they left, Anglican vicars in the area pinned a notice from their bishop to the front doors of their evacuated churches. Addressed to "our United States allies," the notice read in part: "This church has stood for several hundred years. Around it has grown a community which has lived in these houses and tilled these fields ever since there was a church. This church, this churchyard in which their loved ones lie at rest; these homes, these fields are as dear to those who have left them as are the homes and graves which you, our Allied, have left behind you. They hope to return one day, as you hope to return to yours, to find them waiting to welcome them home. — Lynne Olson

The air
pregnant with rainbows
shatters its mirrors
over the grove.

- Air — Federico Garcia Lorca

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. — Woody Allen

I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost. — Ellen Page

I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist
I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree. — Diamanda Galas

We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger. — Benjamin Carson

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. — Theodore Roosevelt

14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my [firm, impenetrable] Rock and my Redeemer. — Anonymous

How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve. — Jay Leno