Schirlest Quotes & Sayings

Four Characters in Consciousness - How does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters in the process, of which it shall be the duty of the present chapter to treat in a general way:

1) Every 'state' tends to be part of a personal consciousness.

2) Within each personal consciousness states are always changing.

3) Each personal consciousness is sensibly continuous.

4) It is interested in some parts of its object to the exclusion of others, and welcomes or rejects - chooses from among them, in a word - all the while. — William James

They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war.
Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural to love dearly. — Blaise Pascal

He wanted her. Sweet Jesus, he wanted her. But he had realized in that very moment that he wanted her whole even more. — Sibylla Matilde

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody - no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds ... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe. — Neil Gaiman

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can. — Dan Stevens

For me, I wanted somebody that got me musically, that understood that I'm an artist and this is who I am. I'm not going to be like another artist on your label, probably - hopefully. I found all those things with the Broken Bow group. — Joe Nichols

As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a body of broken bones. Even saints cannot live with saints on this earth without some anguish. There are two things which men can do about the pain of disunion with other men. They can love or they can hate. — Thomas Merton

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. — Sharon Olds

The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog. — M.K. Clinton

Our country is being run by incompetent people. — Donald Trump

Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins. — Terry Eagleton

The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps. — George W. S. Trow