Sidedness Of Brainstem Quotes & Sayings

Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music? — Patrick Rothfuss

You can see the proof in an MRI scan of someone presented with political opinions that conflict with her own. The brain scans of a person shown statements that oppose her political stance show that the highest areas of the cortex, the portions responsible for providing rational thought, get less blood until another statement is presented that confirms her beliefs. Your brain literally begins to shut down when you feel your ideology is threatened. Try it yourself. Watch a pundit you hate for fifteen minutes. Resist the urge to change the channel. Don't complain to the person next to you. Don't get online and rant. Try to let it go. You will find this is excruciatingly difficult. — David McRaney

And who over the ruins of his life pursued its fleeting, fluttering significance, while he suffered its seeming meaninglessness and lived its seeming madness, and who hoped in secret at the last turn of the labyrinth of Chaos for revelation and God's presence ... — Hermann Hesse

Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch? ...
One happy day for every falling leaf you catch -sam — Maggie Stiefvater

And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star. — T. S. Eliot

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time. — Howard Zinn

If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? — Chuck Palahniuk

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility. — Joe Orton