Oltmanns Abnormal Psychology Quotes & Sayings

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness? — Frances Wright

First rule of complex systems," I said. "You can't tell friends from enemies. — Alastair Reynolds

You don't know what it's like to be alone until you've had someone inside your head. — Ann Aguirre

You should have know this, Mari, that I would help you."
She was smiling again as she wiped her eyes. "Maybe I should have known. But I didn't, Alain. You are a Mage, and sometimes my memories of what happened in the waste and in Ringhmon and at Dorcastle have seemed like some kind of hallucination. I didn't know how you would react when I found you. I was actually ... Alain, I was afraid that when I found you I'd discover that you'd gone back to being like you were when we first met. That you'd just look at me as if I didn't exist and walk away. I should have realized that wouldn't happen. I should have known that you'd help without question. You keep saying that truth doesn't exist, buy you are true. There's nothing false about you. — Jack Campbell

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people. — Ashton Kutcher

I admire people who have and show "class." Coach Pat Riley has class! I can only hope other people say the same about me. — Bradford Winters

It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends. — Alice Thomas Ellis

The Sorcerer may be - indeed he usually is - a thwarted disappointed man whose aims are perfectly natural. Often enough, his real trouble is ignorance; and by the time he has become fairly hot stuff as a Black Magician, he has learnt that he is getting nowhere, and finds himself, despite himself, on the True Path of the Wise. — Aleister Crowley

Of course there was no such thing as a true repetition of anything; ever since the pre-Socratics that had been clear, Heraclitus and his un-twice-steppable river and so on. So habits were not truly iterative, but pseudoiterative. The pattern of the day might be the same, in other words, but the individual events fulfilling the pattern were always a little bit different. Thus there was both pattern and surprise, — Kim Stanley Robinson

We're not only living lives of vanity; our passion for God is often nothing more than a passion to have God make our search for vanity a successful one. — Kevin DeYoung

Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess. — Vasily Smyslov

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live. — Ray Brown