Physiocracy Quotes & Sayings

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding. — Vernon Howard

What I think I do is to relate any new material to how similar it is to something else. The closest that I can come up with something that's already in my experience, the easier it becomes. All I have to do then is remember where it differs, like relating a chord sequence that comes from some other tune, or several different tunes, or maybe parts of them and then work it from there. — Tal Farlow

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away. — Samuel Butler

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. — Rob Sheffield

I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I strongly believe the military should know they are 100 percent supported by the commander in chief. — Phil Roe

At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother. — Jenny Mollen

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back. — Rick Warren

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes. — Erving Goffman

There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for another, , observing how, from a gray, barren, humdrum moment in one's life, there grows forth a marvelous rosy even that in reality had failed to flower. A mysterious thing, this branching structure of life: one senses in every past instant a parting of ways, a 'thus' and an 'otherwise', with innumerable dazzling zigzags bifurcating and trifurcating against the dark background of the past. — Vladimir Nabokov

For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't understand water and gravity. — Camille