Paroxisms Quotes & Sayings

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky. — Groucho Marx

The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe ... — Bill Murray

What connection is there, President, between this uncanny creature and the disappearance of Lord Beltham, of which we were talking at dinner? — Mark Twain

If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I
can live for 3,000,000,000. — Jack Hyles

That's easy; shape shifting ability." His blue eyes twinkled — Brenda Pandos

Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes. — Robert Fulghum

Pushing aside the overwhelming fears of every horrible thing that will and might be, making room for every magnificent thing that is and might be. — Lisa Genova

Clarence Darrow, one of history's greatest lawyers, once noted "There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court." Perhaps because justice is a flawed concept that ultimately comes down to the decision of twelve people. People with their own experiences, prejudices, feelings about what defines right and wrong. Which is why, when the system fails us, we must go out and seek our own justice. — Emily Thorne

You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings. — James Altucher

It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good. — Harry Chapin

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress (Joseph Joubert). — David Webb

For, indeed, this is the great horror, solitude, when the soul can no longer bathe in the ever-changing mind, laugh as its sunlit ripples lap its skin, but, shut up in the castle of a few thoughts, paces its narrow prison, wearing down the stone of time, feeding on its own excrement. There is no star in the blackness of that night, no foam upon the stagnant and putrid sea. Even the glittering health that the desert brings to the body, is like a spear in the soul's throat. The passionate ache to act, to think: this eats into the soul like a cancer. It is the scorpion striking itself in its agony, save that no poison can add to the tortue of the circling fire; no superflux of anguish relieve it by annihilation. But against these paroxisms is an eightfold sedative. The ravings of madness are lost in soundless space; the struggles of the drowning man are not heeded by the sea. — Aleister Crowley

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting. — Kato Kaelin

I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life. — Daniella Alonso

Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing. — J. Ogden Armour

Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit. — Alexis Ohanian