Oscillating Mind Quotes & Sayings

To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories. — John Darnielle

The first time we met he shot me in the head with an electric staple gun, but our relationship has evolved in the subsequent months. — Ben H. Winters

I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful. — Adrian Chiles

Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city. — Sarah Hall

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!' — Jane Smiley

The struggle in Mr. Guppy's breast and the numerous oscillations it occasioned him between his mother's door and us were sufficiently conspicuous in the windy street (particularly as his hair wanted cutting) to make us hurry away. I did so with a lightened heart; but when we last looked back, Mr. Guppy was still oscillating in the same troubled state of mind. — Charles Dickens

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you. — Quentin Crisp

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else. — Carroll Quigley

The truth," he says, "is a painful reminder of why I prefer to live among the lies. — Tahereh Mafi

I come from a background where money has never been an issue. — Ranbir Kapoor

If you gave me
half a moon of a chance
i would
kiss the incisors
out of your mouth, clean
and hold them in my
own, like chippings
from an old mug
then
pray my tongue into
a bowl of holy water
and ask god to never
leave you thirsty. — Warsan Shire

Lucifer's implacable eyes inflamed, his pride rattled by a measly child. — Cathrina Constantine

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's perfectly possible to hold two opposing points of view in the mind at once, oscillating between them. — S.J. Watson

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this
heat is making me absolutely crazy. — Jack Nicholson

The dream of transmigration is profound and complex. In it, you forget who you really are. Through this multiplicity of so many transcendental states, you have divided into many sparks with individual consciousness, and you have forgotten your real nature. We are the dream that appeared as an act of magic that has the solemn purpose of awakening you. It is a glorious day when, in small oscillating parts of the dream of infinite immensity, you, the dreamed personage, realize and know that you have been blindly following a forged mental conception - only a figment of a virtual imagination that lacks any real foundations. The individual mind turns and looks at itself as an astral projection or just a hologram, preconceived by the Source of Radiant Essence. In this instant, something we know as Grace happens. The Source floods the mind with dazzling light and destroys the coverings of psychological "I-ness". — Matias Flury

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living. — Fay Weldon

The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time. — David M. Brown