Vacherie Quotes & Sayings

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine. — Thomas Merton

When I describe priming studies to audiences, the reaction is often disbelief. [ ... ] The idea you should focus on, however, is that disbelief is not an option. The results are not made up, nor are they statistical flukes. You have no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true. More important, you must accept that they are true about you. [ ... ] You do not believe that these results apply to you because they correspond to nothing in your subjective experience. But your subjective experience consists largely of the story that your System 2 tells itself about what is going on. Priming phenomena arise in System 1, and you have no conscious access to them. — Daniel Kahneman

Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There was a little girl,
When she was good, she was very, very good.
But when she was bad, she was horrid. — Jun Mochizuki

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me. — Karlheinz Stockhausen

I've never played in Vegas. I've only been to the airport, but even the airport was exciting. Just flying in, looking out the window, you feel the pull of it, like it's some evil force pulling you in, like Mordor. — Dean Wareham

My fingers itched to touch, my lips begged to taste and my body buzzed with a frenzied energy, but my mind screamed to move far away from him fast. — Melissa Aragon

Honestly, Miss Costa," Queen Jada stated briskly as she sprinkled a pinch of salt over her plate. "There are hundreds of women who would kill to be in your position."
"Well, perhaps I can meet them," Alexa said snidely, her panic quickly turning to anger, "because I would rather die than be Dante's wife. — Katie Lynn Johnson

Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life. — Rachel Zoe

I couldn't stop staring.
"Sweetheart," he said, "is my slip showing or something? — Shelly Reuben

I now saw plainly that this foul emanation could have no admixture or connection whatsoever with the clean air of the Libyan Desert, but must be essentially a thing vomited from sinister gulfs still lower down. — H.P. Lovecraft

Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment. — M.J. Ryan

Our self-centered acts in turn cause us unhappiness and a tendency to repeat our nonvirtuous behavior, thereby producing more misery. — Dalai Lama XIV

Softness was for kittens, pillows and pretty cashmere sweaters. Sex needed to be hard, hot and oh-so-rough around the edges. — Lauren Blakely