Origination Points Quotes & Sayings

The king said, 'What wisdom have you gained from this event?' The scholar replied: 'I now understand that if anyone were to remain perceptive to the real condition of men all the time, he would go mad.' The dervish told him: 'Now you know that the dervish lore includes the knowledge of when to be awake and when to remain asleep. — Idries Shah

Do not linger on regret, my friend," Bronson said. "Go forward and leave the past where it is. — Marcia Lynn McClure

And then in a moment of pure magic, our lips touch tenderly and sensitively! — Avijeet Das

The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information - bad memes - is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the earliest instances is Robert W. Chambers's 'The King in Yellow' from 1895. Chambers's conceit is a malevolent play: read beyond Act II, and you go mad. — Paul Di Filippo

The day my father killed off my mother was the day he stopped knowing me. — Lucia Berlin

We are our own worst enemies. How banal and trite that sounds, but [ ... ] have come to believe that all the greatest truths are trite and banal, when spoken aloud in their simplest and most honest terms. Perhaps they can only be imparted in the Cant, in a language which writes itself onto your heart so that you understand not just the words but all the shattering ramifications of of a sentence which, when heard without true understanding, seems quite risibly simplistic.
We are our own worst enemies.
People die. — Hal Duncan

If you're too chicken to repent, then please don't ever say Christianity is for weak people. — Bill Hybels

I will wait forever," she promised. "However long it takes. — Melissa De La Cruz

Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing. — Ben Folds

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them. — Tommy Lasorda

Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners. — Paul W. Silver

If violence breeds violence and hatred breeds the same ... let's show humanity peace and love. Then we'll truly start making a difference! — Timothy Pina

She smiled at him, and he stopped breathing. — Allie Burke

Animals died when their time came, and meanwhile they didn't bother with clothes, or go to war, or get drunk, or judge other animals by there look. They didn't get afraid unless there was something to be afraid of. She herself came apart with terror over something she couldn't define or understand. She didn't get afraid of something. She just got terrified Filled with anxiety. For no reason. For no reason she could name. Would name.
Animals didn't look back with shivering shame at things in their past. They didn't quake at the thought of what lay ahead. They didn't try to make it into clique and feel sick with humiliation because they couldn't make it. — Mary Stolz