Pilification Quotes & Sayings

However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion. — Kenneth Clark

I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects like inverse probability that would turn Fisher in the briefest possible moment from extreme urbanity into a boiling cauldron of wrath, you got by with little worse than a thick head from the port which he, like the Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood, loved to drink in the evening. And on the credit side you gained a cherished memory of English spoken in a Shakespearean style and delivered in the manner of a Spanish grandee. — Fred Hoyle

She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked. — Joe Abercrombie

I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself known. — Christina Lauren

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts. — Elizabeth George

At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres becomes to us a living reality. When the magical powers of sound are rediscovered and scientifically directed to the specific purpose of healing ... and when man has learned how to release the mantraic powers embodied in such inspired utterances, he will master the energies transcending even those unleashed by the atomic physicist of today. They will be energies of yet another and higher dimension. — Corinne Heline

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me. — Patrick O'Brian

It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Life is all about lies. It's about what you can stomach. — Peter Tieryas

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. — Steven Chu

The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment. — Debasish Mridha

You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected. — Elsie De Wolfe

It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. — Cormac McCarthy

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. — George Etherege