Phalens Maneuver Quotes & Sayings

It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write. — Ally Condie

Nothing is more miserable than man, Of all upon the earth that breathes and creeps. — Homer

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement. — E. M. Forster

Sometimes the world loses its face. it becomes too base. The task of the poet is to restore its face, because otherwise man is lost in doubt and despair. It is an indication that the world need not always be like this; it can be different.
When I wrote...that I accepted the salvational goal of poetry, that was exactly what I had in mind, and I still believe that poetry can either save or destroy nations. — Czeslaw Milosz

If nobody will be so kind as to become my foe, I shall need no more fleets nor armies, and shall be forced to reduce my taxes. — Thomas Paine

That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule. — Keigo Higashino

No! I don't feel any pressure right now! — Tito Sotto

We allow for complexity, and therefore make accommodations for disagreement and its patient resolution, in most of the big areas of life: international trade, immigration, oncology . . . But when it comes to domestic existence, we tend to make a fateful presumption of ease, which in turn inspires in us a tense aversion to protracted negotiation. We would think it peculiar indeed to devote a two-day — Alain De Botton

He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a hot trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other — Ray Bradbury

This world of sense, built by the imagination
how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery! — J.G. Holland

But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The equation on the page ... began to spread out a widening tail, eyed and starred like a peacock's; and, when the eyes and stars of its indices had been eliminated, began slowly to fold itself together again. The indices appearing and disappearing were eyes opening and closing; the eyes opening and closing were stars being born and being quenched. — James Joyce

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
And hold-fast is the only dog. — William Shakespeare

Life is one large process of creation: Self-Examination and introspection is simply to figure out what you want to create in this moment. — Matthew Donnelly

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable. — Joseph B. Wirthlin