Tranquillising Quotes & Sayings

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. — John Mason Brown

The pendant, girl, give me the pendant. — Candace Knoebel

If your heart is not right, no one cares about your skills. — Mark Miller

I went to go see 'Final Destination' which you have to be 17 and over to see and they're like 'Uh, we need to see your I.D.' Here's the really funny thing is that I actually had done my hair and makeup that day. If I don't do my hair and makeup I can understand it but I had actually made an effort to look older. — Kay Panabaker

Carlina felt as if sudden sunshine had filled the kitchen ... [Carlina's reaction to Stefano Garini] — Beate Boeker

To have a life mission is to be pivoted on the ultimate fulfilment of God's will — Sunday Adelaja

It's the central executive in your brain that notices that the floor is dirty. It forms an executive attentional set for "mop the floor" and then constructs a worker attentional set for doing the actual mopping. — Daniel J. Levitin

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance, — Benjamin Carson

Shakespeare was a white male, but he is not a dead white male. There may be only three or four women in each Shakespeare play but they are the key to how to transform a society. They are the teachers and the leaders in a new way of thinking about relationships, hierarchies, and love. They have the focus and energy to counterbalance the authority of the ten to thirty men who inhabit each play. — Tina Packer

In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others. — Kevin Sorbo

Sean: 'People stop giving a shit about what you do with your life after college,'
Leon: 'I'm pretty sure nobody gave a shit about it while you were in college. — Patrick Anderson Jr.

Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body. As she feeds my imagination, she will feed my body; for what she says she means, and is ready to do. She is not simply beautiful to the poet's eye. Not only the rainbow and sunset are beautiful, but to be fed and clothed, sheltered and warmed aright, are equally beautiful and inspiring. There is not necessarily any gross and ugly fact which may not be eradicated from the life of man. — Henry David Thoreau

Such a gentleman simply dashes straight for his object like an infuriated bull with its horns down, and nothing but a wall will stop him. (By the way: facing the wall, such gentlemen
that is, the "direct" persons and men of action
are genuinely nonplussed. For them a wall is not an evasion, as for us people who think and consequently do nothing; it is not an excuse for turning aside, an excuse for which we are always very glad, though we scarcely believe in it ourselves, as a rule. No, they are nonplussed in all sincerity. The wall has for them something tranquillising, morally soothing, final
maybe even something mysterious ... but of the wall later.) — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy fanfare. — John Updike

It takes a truly dedicated person to see opportunities in every aspect
of life — Shannon Kaiser

A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important. — Takeda Shingen