Proto Humanist Quotes & Sayings

People are in one of two states in a relationship," Gottman went on. "The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It's like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they'll say, 'Oh, he's just in a crummy mood.' Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative. — Malcolm Gladwell

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past. — Wendell Phillips

That's what I thought. When I looked that human in the face. I figured he was either a genius or crazy."
Artemis's cool eyes glared at them from the screen.
"So which is it?" asked Foaly. "A genius or crazy?"
Root grabbed his tri-barreled blaster from the gun rack.
"What's the difference? — Eoin Colfer

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask. — Isaac Hayes

The present will not long endure. — Pindar

Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone. — Massad Ayoob

It has been my experience that law enforcement reports are littered with fabrications, inaccuracies, omissions, fraud, fantasies and willful blindness. — Steven Magee

Magazines are very popular, despite no human ever feeling better for having read them. Indeed, their chief purpose is to generate a sense of inferiority in the reader that consequently leads to them needing to buy something, which they do, and then feel even worse, and so need to buy another magazine to see what they can buy next. It is an eternal and unhappy spiral that goes by the name of capitalism and it is really quite popular. — Matt Haig

Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical. — Tim Ferriss