The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The third doorway is the Doorway of Unconditional Self-love, which corresponds to the energy center located in the solar plexus area. As… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
My sons and I thoroughly enjoy Legos. We go to the toy store every week for more. I never want to take… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Nothing poisons love more than honesty. If love lasts until the day we die, we will live without showing our real self… — Yang Gui-ja Copy Share Image
Here is Christianity. Whence came it? It is a force in the world, a prodigious force. It has revolutionized society. It has… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
“-“Dammit! Don’t do that!” I hissed. -“Would you prefer I not be myself around you?” he breathed, his warm, marble arms entangling… — C.D. Basso Copy Share Image
Our nations are run by absolute worthless scum, our streets are taken over by sub-humans, the food we eat and the water… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“At times I might hate the behavior, but don’t confuse that with my feelings regarding the person. For it is all too… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I’m Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the Roe vs. Wade decision that brought ‘legal’ child killing to America. I was… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the… — Khalid Abdul Muhammad Copy Share Image
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
