Alterity And Transcendence Quotes

#1. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

John Wilmot

#2. Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.

Jerry Spinelli

#3. A couple of buffoons were running for some state-senate seat just vacated by the incumbent's prison term. One accused the other of being "against the Internet" - a knockout punch in a world where whole hordes of humans think better sex is a faster modem.

Andrew Vachss

#4. But it's just that he is basically a very honest person. That makes him uncompromising sometimes.

Barack Obama

#5. But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.
Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

Paulo Coelho

#6. One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.

Jorge Luis Borges

#7. As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

Andrew Marvell

#8. All these feelings that you get before you fight or when you're fighting or training for a fight, it makes me feel alive, and I love that feeling.

Kron Gracie

#9. If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

Billy Connolly

#10. We must never look for discretion in first love. First love is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy be allowed to overflow, it will stifle you.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There's a kind of glory to them when they're all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy.

Andy Rooney

#12. In his life, after all, he had achieved nothing, had been totally unproductive. He couldn't make anyone else happy, and, of course, couldn't make himself happy. Happiness? He wasn't even sure what that meant.

Haruki Murakami