Alert Silence Quotes

#1. So much of "normal, civilized" life is bull that you can't imagine ... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

James Clavell

#2. I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

Joseph Addison

#3. First and Second Kings are not disinterested, flat historical works...They stress God's sovereignty over Israel and all other nations.

Paul R. House

#4. One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

Nancy Ruth

#5. When you accept discomfort of whatever moment that you are in. The power of that surrender, that letting go of desiring to be in a different situation than the one your in.........will set you free from the hell of your unconscious.

Matthew Donnelly

#6. Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

Hans Eysenck

#7. I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#8. In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.

Nancy Milford

#9. It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

Vincent De Paul

#11. I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

Rachel Kushner

#12. Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more.

Olivia Palermo