Alienness Quotes

#1. [M]aking a show was better cover than trying to stay inconspicuous; Western capitalism in particular allowed the rich just about the right amount of behavioural leeway to account for the oddities our alienness might produce.

Iain M. Banks

#2. The perfect storm of occupational stress appears to be a combination of two factors: (1) a great deal is expected of you, and (2) you have no control over whether you will perform well.

John Medina

#3. You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.

Peter Scott

#4. Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.

Vance Havner

#5. Life without money seems to be incomplete,but money without life is absolutely useless

ABC

#6. Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

Diablo Cody

#7. As if keening on your knees
were somehow obscene
As if there were a control
so marvelous
you could teach it
to eat pain.

Maggie Nelson

#8. We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

Mira Grant

#9. I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Rebecca West

#10. Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

Erin Morgenstern

#11. Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.

M. John Harrison

#12. The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.

Fulton J. Sheen

#14. fully endowed with conclusive knowledge of the Vedas, and having realized the ultimate purpose of such knowledge in practice, you will be able to perceive the pure self and

Srila Vyasadeva

#15. As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

Nick Frost

#16. I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

Nikola Tesla