Unfocused Background Quotes & Sayings

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. — Charles Spurgeon

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh. — Fede Alvarez

Lucy's Rules to Live By:
1. Make the conscious decision to look at others with an open mind and an open heart.
2. Everybody needs someone in their life they can rely on. Try to be that person.
3. Take a chance.
4. Love whole-heartedly.
5. Make it your goal to make someone smile daily.
6. Always expect more of yourself today than you did yesterday.
7. No matter how many times you're let down, continue believing in the goodness of others. — Cheryl McIntyre

Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness ... focusing the consciousness ... aortal dilation ... avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness ... to be conscious by choice ... blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions ... one does not obtain food-safety freedom by instinct alone ... animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct ... the animal destroys and does not produce ... animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual ... the human requires a background grid through which to see his universe ... focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid ... bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs ... all things/cells/beings are impermanent ... strive for flow-permanence within ... — Frank Herbert

One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established precedents on clean air, clean water, privacy, equal opportunity and religious liberty. — Ralph Neas

I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. — Ernest Hemingway,

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. — Ray Bradbury

The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot. — Rupert Everett

If he had been a dog in a city, a policeman would have shot him and sent his head to a laboratory, to see if he had rabies. So it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut

Abdullah explained to me the man had not understood the significance of the image on the flag, so Abdullah told him it was a picture of Afghanistan - a picture of his country. At that, the man had shrugged and walked away. That's when I started to understand that our goal of establishing loyalty to a national government was possibly in trouble. — Wes Moore

I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me. — Iris Apfel

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job. — Robert Smith

One thing is clear: Ron Paul defies labels. — Mark McKinnon