Transposition Error Quotes & Sayings

The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over ... next! — Diana Krall

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [ ... ] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Is contentment death? Does one need to want in order to live? — A.M. Homes

...romantic weltschmerz, a state of feeling thought to be basically subversive yet in most cases, like 'beat' rebelliousness today, adolescent and harmless. — Leo Marx

There were impressive stone paths and benches and even a statue of an angel that gave Simon nervous fits, since he was a Doctor Who fan. The angel wasn't weeping, exactly, but it looked too depressed for Simon's liking. — Cassandra Clare

and I had no home but the heart's hut,
the blistering walls of loneliness,
the world's blue skymiles of longing. — Dave Smith

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out. — Bart Stupak

I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer. — Carl Reiner

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast. — Peter James West

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun. — John Green

I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it. — John Fante