Tepidity Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs. — David Bowie

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things. — Vishwas Mudagal

The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce. — Mark W. Boyer

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. — Samuel Johnson

It was one thing to be called pretty; it was a true compliment to be called smart. — Michael Callahan

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. — Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress. — Maimonides

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it. — Lee J. Cobb

It is good to be skeptical, to ask "is this really true?," to take nothing at face value. It is not good to blind yourself to what you can see is true, useful, or beautiful because you are afraid to trust. — Mark David Chapman

We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. — Stephen King

If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development. — Gaylord Nelson

Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined. — Arthur Golden

In Hull's view, all learning involves the reduction of basic drives (like hunger, thirst, sex, or pain), and current behavior is therefore a product of drive reduction in the past. That is, what we do today in a certain situation is a function of what we did in the past that was successful in reducing drives in similar situations. This is essentially a psychological version of the philosophical position known as hedonism, the idea that we live our lives in such a way as to seek pleasure and avoid pain. — Joseph E. Ledoux