Vasto Lateral Quotes & Sayings

The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoughts. I'm not normally a navel-gazer. I've always thought you find yourself in other people. I'm visiting here. I don't want to set up house. — Bono

There's something very magical about water and what happens to it when it freezes. I don't think there's anything else in the world, perhaps in our universe, that is quite like ice. — Ira Flatow

From up above, in a plane passing over, you'd just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and beside that one. So much happening in the world, night and day, hour by hour. It was no wonder we were meant to sleep, if only to check out of it for a little while. — Sarah Dessen

Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad. — Gary Smalley

This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other. — Tracee Ellis Ross

It made no sense that Abraham could head for the mountain in Moriah still believing in God's goodness. It made no sense that even as he walked his son to the sacrificial altar, he still believed God's promise that Isaac would give him many descendants. It made no sense that he was willing to do the one thing in the world he could not do, just because God told him to. God told him to obey and to believe that he as a loving god and could be trusted. So Abraham did obey. — Anne Lamott

Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him. — Max Lerner

Proverbs for Paranoids, 4: You hide, they seek. — Thomas Pynchon

If there was one thing I'd like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean. — Torrie Wilson

To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish. — Malcolm Gladwell

The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her. — Scott K. Edinger

Tough guys toughen up when faced with adversity. So he flexes his gag reflex and steps inside. — Bradley Sands

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky. — Steve Carell

Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the good is the enemy of the better," so too "the self-evident is the enemy of the very process of clarification or understanding," not to mention the enemy of the "transcendent or ultimate." — Kenny Smith