Pre Rationalist Quotes & Sayings

Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions. — Kevin Roberts

It's so dark that I can hear the sea better than I can see it. Shhhhh, Shhhhh, it says, like I'm a fretful child and it's my mother, though if the sea were my mother, I'd rather have been an orphan. — Maggie Stiefvater

Courage is not the absence of fear — Richard Stengel

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by — Neil Gaiman

Grinding her teeth together, she hoped the bastards weren't cheering yet, because it was going to take more than one bullet to kill Jenny Jones. — Maggie Osborne

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go - or got careless and crushed it. — Joe Hill

We woke up some years ago about the consequences of ozone depletion, the hole in the atmosphere. You can't see it. You can't taste it. You can't smell it. But now we do regard that as a key issue. It's a scientific finding. — Sylvia Earle

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create. — Joe Elliott

Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too. — Anthony Bourdain