Unfluences Quotes & Sayings

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable. — A. J. McLean

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world. — Paul Watson

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. — Gabrielle Zevin

I bet I got places to go that I don't even know exist yet. — Alden Bell

Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out. — Ted Allen

Our parents teach us the very first things we learn. They teach us about hearts. — Franny Billingsley

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. — Victor Cousin

No, I guess I don't see the point of pretending and putting on airs. I'm not ashamed of who I am. At one point, yes, I was embarrassed about who I was, and the clothes that I wore, and where I lived. But I learned that those things weren't important. What's most important to me is family and being proud of the person I am. I'm not going to pretend I'm someone I'm not. — Chanda Hahn

In the dark you looked so human in your skin that I called you human in my head and didn't want you then and felt relieved: a love story. — Melissa Broder

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable. — Frank Herbert

No imagination has yet been great enough to invent improvements to the truth. Truth, however terrible, carried within itself its own strange comfort for the misery it is so often compelled to inflict on behalf of life. Sooner or later it is not pretence but the truth which gives back with both hands what it has taken away with one. Indeed, unaided and alone it will pick up the fragments of the reality it has shattered and piece them together again in the shape of more immediate meaning than the one in which they had been previously contained. — Laurens Van Der Post

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign ... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life. — Plutarch

Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness. — Pope Francis

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. — Theodore Dalrymple