Parabola Magazine Quotes & Sayings

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway. — David Brooks

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. — Dave Ramsey

Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength. — Betsy Cornwell

Water walks with the moon and embraces the earth, and it isn't afraid to die in fire or live in air. When you step into it, it will be as close as your own skin, but if you hit it too hard, it will shatter you . — Emmi Itaranta

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.' — Edmund White

Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that's what they're willing to fight for" -Dan — Laura Dave

Turning away, sobbing, I hide behind my hair, the kettle and coffee forgotten. It's too hard to talk about it. I can't talk about it. It's no one's business but mine. The trauma breathes in my blood, it feasts on my life, it gives me cold sweats and nightmares still. — Poppet

Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one. — Richard Siken

Leo wondered what unknown sin they must have committed in some previous life to deserve this. The answer came the same way their feet later shocked to life in the warming hut after being so numb for hours- you think you'll never feel your toes again, and then all of a sudden life, damaged, stiffened, clammy, but life, dog-eat-dog life! We have not done a single thing to deserve this. — Peter Orner

I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments. — Tod Machover

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. — Oscar Wilde

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. — Michael Gove

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief. — Edmund Burke

I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right. — Christine Lagarde

I wondered if Alice had felt this confused when she had fallen down the well into Wonderland — Dani Atkins