Rivais Web Quotes & Sayings

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. — Judith Martin

The question may well be raised, however, whether we could have a community or a society based on this hypothesis of multiple realities. Might not such a society be a completely individualistic anarchy? That is not my opinion. Suppose my grudging tolerance of your separate world view became a full acceptance of you and your right to have such a view. Suppose that instead of shutting out the realities of others as absurd or dangerous or heretical or stupid, I was willing to explore and learn about those realities? Suppose you were willing to do the same. What would be the social result? I think that our society would be based not on a blind commitment to a cause or creed or view of reality, but on a common commitment to each other as rightfully separate persons, with separate realities. The natural human tendency to care for another would no longer be "I care for you because you are the same as I," but, instead, "I prize and treasure you because you are different from me. — Carl R. Rogers

I never think about anything in my brain. I think in very small repetitive circles inside my own brain. That's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I get any sort of conclusion or understanding about anything. — Melissa Febos

in this society, things you'd think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time. — Banana Yoshimoto

He was continually surprised at the speed and accuracy of her creepiness. She was like some creepiness child prodigy — Christopher Moore

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. — Ben Stiller

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost. — Thomas Aquinas

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age. — Johnnie Cochran

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed. — Mercedes McCambridge

... people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood. — Terry Pratchett