Sophus Properties Quotes & Sayings

Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between. — Antonio Damasio

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not. — Gayle Forman

I tried to speak your poems
but I could not!
The weeping of the gods
fell upon my ears. — Shiki Masaoka

I'd have a few on and off, but the commitment was always more on the girls' part than on mine, to be perfectly honest. So, I met a girl in Tokyo, on my Japanese tour, with whom I've been living ever since, very happily. Her name is Suchi. — Iggy Pop

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own. — Rudyard Kipling

Akroyd!" Sunny cried, a phrase which here means "Roger. — Lemony Snicket

Since I don't have actual authority over anybody, Petra, how can it possibly matter if I'm not legitimately authorized? — Orson Scott Card

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression. — Martin Sheen

This is a time, as Herman Hesse puts it, when a whole generation is caught ... between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand itself and has no standards, no security, no simple acquiescence. — Rollo May

Be more than a person she would settle for ... be a person she would yearn for. — Steve Maraboli

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult ... — Julia Cameron

Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've 'left' or need to 'go back' to one or the other. In fact, if the theatre is to avoid a brain drain, this kind of fluidity is increasingly necessary. — Theresa Rebeck

Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast
give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun. — Eric Alterman

In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential ... Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly. — Renee Fleming