Overarousal Quotes & Sayings

We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles. — Barry Goldwater

Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having foolishly divided the heaven into parts, you should be anxious as to the quarter from which the flying flame may come, or to what region it may betake itself; and tremble to think how it penetrates through walled enclosures, and how, having exercised its power, it extricates itself from them. Of which phenomena the multitude can by no means see the causes, and think that they are accomplished by supernatural power. — Lucretius

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us. — Jon Katz

As Peter Berger has noted, the strategy of apologizing for Christian faith by trying to demonstrate its social utility is always eventually self-liquidating. Sooner of later people realize that a great many of the supposedly practical and secular benefits of the Christian religion can be had more easily without religion ... The logic of practical atheism may well be more deeply ingrained in the evangelical tradition than conservatives perhaps have realized. — Craig M. Gay

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction. — Mary-Louise Parker

I think are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding — William Golding

I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how not to be perfect. — Melissa Peterman

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from. — Al Davis

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances. — Joanna Lumley

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight ... — Diane Duane