Phsychological Quotes & Sayings

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. — William Cobbett

There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's interests, and you represent his interests to the press. And the press is a proxy for the American people. — Dee Dee Myers

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out. — Robert Fulghum

When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites ... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared. — Kate Christensen

For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with. — Ian Fleming

That is what is meant by the proposition omne ens est verum (everything that is, is true) - though we have almost ceased to understand it - and by the complementary proposition that being and truth are interchangeable concepts. (What does truth mean, where things are concerned, the truth of things? "A thing is true" means: it is known and knowable, known to the absolute spirit, knowable to the spirit that is not absolute. — Joseph Pieper

My heart breaks to see the world in such turmoil. — Billy Graham

Not-my cousin Helen. — Josephine Angelini

What happened?" I asked quietly.
"I lost some people," [Rogan] said. There was an awful finality in his voice.
I hadn't thought he cared. I'd thought he viewed his people as tools and took care of them because tools had to be kept in good repair, but this sounded like genuine grief - that complicated cocktail of guilt, regret, and overwhelming sadness you felt when someone close to you died. It broke you and made you feel helpess. Helpless wasn't even in Rogan's vocabulary. — Ilona Andrews

The life you build feels like the entire world, and when it's suddenly gone, the world doesn't make sense for a while. Or, in his case, ever again. — Jonathan Tropper

There comes a time when we can no longer tell the invaders from the invaded. That is what we call "War. — Hiroya Oku

Art is not about achievement, but rather a new perspective to look from. — Armin Houman