Perceivings Quotes & Sayings

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory. — Donald Davidson

Failure may be an option but quitting is not. — Steven D. Levitt

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor. — Sally Armstrong

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore. — Larry McMurtry

I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember. — Chade-Meng Tan

When you think you can stand no more of the wolf's snuffing under the door and keening softly on cold nights, throw discretion into the laundry bag, put candles on the table, and for your own good if not the pleasure of an admiring audience make one or another of the recipes in this chapter. And buy yourself a bottle of wine, or make a few cocktails, or have a long open-hearted discussion of cheeses with the man on the corner who is an alien but still loyal if bewildered. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness. — Stephanie Ellis

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

That while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. — John Green

Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane. — Lisa Randall

I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders;
and now you want me to climb
on a jackass? Try to be serious. — Mirabai

Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen