Tetlocks Super Quotes & Sayings

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit. — William Barrett

It was the very nature of summer. So many long, lazy days when blissfully, nothing changes, and then everything does, all at once. — Sarah Dessen

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. — Bernard Berenson

While for most Christians, humans were expelled from paradise because they literally ate from the tree of life, due to the influence of a serpent, the Gnostics know that the tree of life is the human body, the serpent is the kundalini energy, which tempted humans through sexual desire, and sex was the prohibited fruit. — Daniel Marques

She sat down on the bed next to Crispen,
and he snuggled into the crook of her arm.
"I'm getting you dirty," he whispered.
"I don't care."
"What are we going to do, Mairin? — Maya Banks

Perry says that he feels like going to Priest Pond and knocking the daylights out of Great-Aunt Nancy. I told him he must not talk like that about my family, and anyhow I don't see how knocking the daylights out of Great-Aunt Nancy would make her change her opinion about me ... (I wonder what daylights are and how you knock them out of people.) — L.M. Montgomery

Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We excite ourselves with dark thoughts in plays, poems, novels, movies. — Ian McEwan

I took a breath, seeing from across the room the rain on his eyelashes. A sudden need to brush them free filled me. I could almost feel the dampness of the rain on my fingers, how soft it would feel. — Kim Harrison

Remember: Oppression thrives off isolation. Connection is the only thing that can save us. — Yolo Akili