Phenomenologically Challenged Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I guess you don't see me standing right here, holding his hand while you flip on the hot and ready sign? Okay, you are bold." — Christina C. Jones

In place of hope all that remained to him was endurance, and somewhere beyond the long sequence of nights, beyond the orchards that faded, blossomed, and perished once more, beyond all the people he had encountered and who had then passed on into the past, there existed his fated day-when he would have to take to his bed, turn his face to the wall, and pass away without being able to cry — Andrei Platonov

I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to increase vaginal engorgement as the baby emerges. — Ina May Gaskin

Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity! — Mary Engelbreit

He was in the fire station not exactly enjoying a lonely lunch. — Michael Grant

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The reason time is always running out is because it has nothing else better to do. — Carroll Bryant

The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind. — T. S. Eliot

There was joy in getting his blood pressure down ... joy in climbing Mount Everest ... joy in reaching the summits of six more of the world's highest mountains ... joy in building a profitable company providing houses that people could turn into homes ... joy in learning to fly. But he will also tell you there has been no joy as great as giving from what God has blessed him with so that he might bless and serve others. That's the true and ultimate purpose of setting and reaching goals. — Zig Ziglar

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Digital means flow: data flow, information flow, knowledge flow, and mind flow. — Pearl Zhu

I was promising myself strength.

I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it. — Aspen Matis

The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side. — Sarah Waters

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained. — Ludwig Quidde