Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, most of our vital physiological functions are involuntary, as some amongst us would forget them.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated –… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
