Volodia Keilis Borok Quotes & Sayings

Much of our suffering is caused by our false perceptions and attachment to mental images. We assume things to be true without really knowing whether they are true or not, then create a world of hurt for ourselves and others. — Joseph P. Kauffman

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces. — Noel Coward

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler

I think you made your opinion clear already. Go home, Eden. And don't worry. I won't bother you anymore." He unlaced his arms and turned away to pick up a new log. "But I want you to bother me! — Karen Witemeyer

So I didn't write this book because I've accomplished something extraordinary. I wrote this book because I've achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn't happen to most kids who grow up like me. You see, I grew up poor, in the Rust Belt, in an Ohio steel town that has been hemorrhaging jobs and hope for as long as I can remember. — J.D. Vance

Vets are close to my heart, okay, and it's not only because I served, okay. It's because of what they go through, okay. A lot of these people have gave their lives, a lot of them have gave their limbs, okay, you know, that's a, that's a, that's a heap, you know. — Si Robertson

America and Europe are so different in the way they conceive of themselves and art and cinema. — Tom Hiddleston

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. — Max Planck

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States. — Randall Kennedy

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else — Theodore Roosevelt

But he does not try to feel things that he no longer feels. He is changing and he wants his feelings to keep pace with him. — Paulo Coelho

That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided. — William McIlvanney

A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer. — Gilbert Gottfried