Christopher Langan Quotes

#1. Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.

Christopher Langan

#2. Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.

Matsuo Basho

#3. One single object ... [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Walking in fellowship with God is better than a thousand marriage books or counseling sessions, as helpful as these resources can be.

Alex Kendrick

#5. To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.

Christopher Langan

#6. In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

David Mamet

#7. We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

#8. You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

Christopher Langan

#9. In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

Christopher Langan

#10. The principles of catching rumours were, in fact, similar to the principals of catching dreams, but because rumour was weightier, the catcher had to be positioned closer to the ground. Rumour flew low, dreams flew high, and somewhere in between were prayers.

Sarah Winman

#11. Life and death are in constant battle. There is no way in this world for happiness to exist alone ...

Nancy Farmer

#12. There's no logical connection between being smart and having money.

Christopher Langan

#13. The fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fires of the iron.

Ruth Ahmed

#14. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

Richard Price

#15. Shall we dance,friend of my heart?
We shall, little one.

Christopher Paolini

#16. Peace is experienced when we accepts all the situations without any resistance whether good or bad.

Gian Kumar

#17. I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

Jenny Holzer