Triaged Quotes & Sayings

The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter. — John O'Donohue

It is still because of our self-image that we tend to forget answers that may jeopardize our future at crucial moments, or to communicate words that offend who we love the most when we believe we don't deserve the love of another person. — Robin Sacredfire

(Excerpt from Leaving Things Alone)
You train your eye and your vision lusts after colour. You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound. You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape. You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason. — Thomas Merton

Luckily, the injured had all been triaged in another area, but there was too much smoke in the air to confirm that the others had moved to safety. Wheezing, Wells ran forward, coughing and wiping his eyes with his sleeves as he called out for anyone who needed help. There — Kass Morgan

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet. — Nile Rodgers

People are tired of this mainstream shit; television and radio is ghastly and the public can smell the corporate meeting. When you watch a show with Simon Cowell, you know no human touch has been near it, that they've carefully engineered the outcome and picked those they're going to humiliate. We live in an age of information glut, but so many people don't question what they're spoon-fed or bother to search for themselves. — Greg Proops

Those who wait for the right time to act on their life are doing nothing. — Santosh Kalwar

You can have too much champagne to drink but you can never have enough. — Elmer Rice

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at. — Bob Hope

Art isn't a hawk making lazy circles in the sky. Beauty doesn't equal art, and it can't just be the world in a package. It's got to take the world and mess it up some. Add the artifice as a lens, right? — Samantha Hunt

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public. — Michael Storm

It was approaching night, the conversation having taken up the better part of a day. Out of the fragile light a fourth perezoso spoke, the olders and wisest of them, who had to descend to the forest floor on business no more than once every two or three weeks, but then required many hours to accomplish what was necessary. He said, "The truth is this. Dropped casually from the safety of our beloved branches, our shit would be merely shit. Hard and shapely as our patient nature makes it, it is still shit. But when we plant it in the ground where the jaguar walks, it becomes precious as jewels. — Lon Otto

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection. — Henri Frederic Amiel

blue shower curtain — Stephen King

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair. — Katrina Mayer

We were created for a world where the rule of law did not extend to our kind, and our earliest templates were trained and triaged, so that only the obedient survived. Just imagining the act of disobeying an instruction from one of our Creators can bring about physically disturbing symptoms - Then they all died. And the society we built for ourselves in the twilit afterlife of their world, using the rules they laid out for us, is diseased. — Charles Stross