Theocentric Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. — Cate Blanchett

Pritkin, it's a hotel room, not a death trap!" A glance over his shoulder showed him impatient blue eyes under a fall of messy blond curls. "Anyway, you're here."
"I can't protect you from everything," he forced himself to say, because it was true. It was also frankly terrifying in a way that his own mortality was not. He'd never had children, but he sometimes wondered if this was how parents felt when catching sight of a fearless toddler confidently heading toward a busy street. Not that his charge was a child, as he was all too uncomfortably aware. But the knowledge of just how many potentially lethal pitfalls lay in her path sometimes caused him that same heart-clenching terror.
And the same overwhelming need to throw her over his lap and spank the living daylights out of her, he thought grimly, when she suddenly popped out of existence. "Cassie! — Karen Chance

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn ... What comes out is what I feel. — Billie Holiday

And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you? — Rachel True

It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities. — Werner Heisenberg

Bash it out now, tart it up later. — Nick Lowe

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present. — Storm Jameson

Home was a place you lived, love was a thing you didn't fool yourself about, joy was a word that applied to a good Charleston, happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people, a father was an individual who enjoyed his own existence, a husband was a man you lived with and kept going in spirits. — D.H. Lawrence

Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about. — W. Somerset Maugham

Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older. — B.C. Forbes

Boy on a Train From — Ralph Ellison

A man-of-war is the best ambassador. — Oliver Cromwell

Growing up in stable, happy, and secure households may end up killing ambition, which leads to downward social mobility. The most extreme examples of this are found in aristocratic families, in which the amount of inherited wealth tends to decline with every generation. — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Asperger's Syndrome is a neurological condition, not a mental illness. Some parts of your brain are over-wired, and work more than other people's, and other parts are under-wired. They don't function the same way as in a typical person. In your case, you have to learn social conventions; you don't pick up on them instinctively. Logic and reason dictate your actions more than emotion or instinct. — Carol Shay Hornung

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon