Volens Quotes & Sayings

Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments. — Tullian Tchividjian

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. — Anonymous

I had tasted power and I had used it up, but now I would get more of another kind. We would share it, and keep each other from the dark. — E.K. Johnston

I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you. — Graham Kennedy

Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it. — Nora Roberts

Maybe it explains the reason why one person likes another. It's because their souls both thrum at the same frequency. — Mary Amato

And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation. — Abhijit Naskar

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. — George Gordon Byron

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be. — Golda Meir

nobody ever said smart people had to be sane, and nobody ever said that intelligence has to be paired with wisdom. — Yasmine Galenorn