Rodenhiser Home Quotes & Sayings

It is very difficult to make really big,
important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible
to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them
than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we
like to admit. — Dan Ariely

Spenser Reynolds began telling about his next project - an attempt to have suicides coordinate their leaps from bridges on a score of worlds while the All Thing watched - and Tyrena Wingreen-Feif stole all attention by putting her arm around Monsignor Edouard and inviting him to her after-dinner nude swimming party at her floating estate on Mare Infinitus. I — Dan Simmons

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness. — Susan Sontag

Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this. — Victor Devlin

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. — Lord Alfred Douglas

Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way. — Fernando Pessoa

Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and heart. — Blaise Pascal

Every time you do a project, you learn something new. — Justin Timberlake

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. — Malcolm Forbes

Men like him should be required by law to carry a heart defibrillator. He — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

He robbed a bank in Wichita. — William Gibson

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all. - Folk rhyme — Cassandra Clare

Scuse me, lady, but I'm Wisp, 'cause that's all I am, a wisp of a thing, not much good for changing a thing in the world, said the boy for when he stepped inside, the light from the grimy window gave her a good view of his anxious, pointed little face. — Anne McCaffrey

To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous. — Zhuangzi

The people of that age were phrase slaves. The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us. There was a magic in words greater than the conjurer's art. So befuddled and chaotic were their minds that the utterance of a single word could negative the generalizations of a lifetime of serious research and thought. Such a word was the adjective UTOPIAN. The mere utterance of it could damn any scheme, no matter how sanely conceived, of economic amelioration or regeneration. Vast populations grew frenzied over such phrases as "an honest dollar" and "a full dinner pail." The coinage of such phrases was considered strokes of genius. — Jack London