Thought Catalog 32 Quotes & Sayings

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. — Harry Mathews

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. — Anne Rice

Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him ... but here we are. — Pope Francis

Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of weakness. but feelings don't want to be pacified, either. They want to be fulfilled. You fulfill your positive feelings (love, hope, optimism, appreciation, approval) by connecting with other people, expressing your best self. You fulfill your negative feelings by releasing them. Your whole system recognizes negative feelings as toxic. It's futile to bottle them up, divert them, ignore them, or try to rise above them. Either negativity is leaving or it's hanging on - it has no other alternative.
As you fulfill emotions, your brain will change and form new patterns, which is the whole goal. — Deepak Chopra

We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak ... and we are resolved under all circumstances to destroy this system. — Gregor Strasser

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? — Lois McMaster Bujold

If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable. — June Jordan

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect. — Chico Hamilton

We are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin. — Tite Kubo

It seems like I'm not [happy]. Because if you look at my tweets and what I think and say, it seems like I'm worried about what's going to happen. — Tao Lin

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset. — Salma Hayek

There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can see, something is lost in the translation of this pithy expression: there is great similarity in both the spelling and the pronunciation of the original saying, but these get diluted once they are put in English dress. Even the translation of this proverb illustrates its truth! — Daniel Wallace

Maybe money couldn't buy happiness, but it could get you a table that looked like the back end of a deep-sea fishing vessel. — Kim Harrison

I couldn't love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more. — Darnell Lamont Walker