Selders Tavern Quotes & Sayings

The Longstockings are eight children's and young adult writers. We all came out of the New School MFA program, and we meet regularly to critique each other's work. — Lisa Graff

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. — Ann Richards

The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing. — Laren Grey Umphlett

On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo. — Jerry Coleman

But if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go" ... "people have reasons for doing the things that they do, especially when they care about you. You may not always understand what they are, but if you can try to understand the person then you might see that they really care, despite what happened."
pg 100 Meredith to Vlad — Heather Brewer

You have an ocean of love in your heart. Then why are you too stingy to give it away? — Debasish Mridha

Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free. — Edward Smith

Each one of us has a duty to Allah and a role that befits him - and we must remember that He (the Exalted) alone is worthy to be served. — Abdul Malik Mujahid

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign. — Stephen King

In order to discredit faith and seduce believers, Kant does not hesitate to appeal to pride or vanity: whoever does not rely on reason alone is a "minor" who refuses to "grow up"; if men allow themselves to be led by "authorities" instead of "thinking for themselves," it is solely through laziness and cowardice, neither more nor less. A thinker who needs to make use of such means - which on the whole are demagogic - must indeed be short of serious arguments. — Frithjof Schuon

And as soon as you accepted that the man's breakdown was a consequence of his war experience rather than his own innate weakness, then inevitably the war became the issue. And the therapy was a test, not only of the genuineness of the individual's symptoms, but also of the validity of the demands the war was making on him. Rivers had survived partly by suppressing his awareness of this. But then along came Sassoon and made the justifiability of the war a matter for constant, open debate, and that suppression was no longer possible. At times it seemed to Rivers that all his other patients were the anvil and that Sassoon was the hammer. Inevitably there were times when he resented this. As a civilian, Rivers's life had consisted of asking questions, and devising methods by which truthful answers could be obtained, but there are limits to how many fundamental questions you want to ask in a working day that starts before eight am and doesn't end till midnight. — Pat Barker

I would say that during my lifetime, one of the worst political scandals in Sweden was absolutely what happened surrounding the affair of the submarines in Swedish waters in 1982, where there were supposed to be Russian submarines close to Stockholm. And the military of Sweden never got one up. — Henning Mankell

You have pajamas with a dead Palestinian leader's face on them."
"I am aware," Gus said, trying not to fidget as Casey essentially stared at his crotch. "They're my Yasser Arapants."
Casey choked.
Gus waited.
"Oh my fucking god," Casey mumbled to himself. "You're like ... just ... like, this person. — T.J. Klune

Lastly, it may be observed that the lack of synthesis, a characteristic of abulia, does not bear equally on all psychological images. Marcelle, a great abulic patient who remains to be studied, unites be-ter and understands better the auditive images than the visual images, and the latter better than the images of the muscular sense. — Anonymous

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. — Thomas A Kempis