Crystalinks Metaphysical Quotes

#1. It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

Johannes Stark

#2. People don't like it when you make fun of a celebrity. When you make fun of a celebrity, you'll hear from really loyal fans of that celebrity.

Dave Barry

#3. Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

John Quincy Adams

#4. I just wished she'd stop forgetting me. Like she didn't want to remember me. Or maybe she wished she'd never had me.

Karen Marie Moning

#5. I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

Brian May

#6. Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl.
'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything.
Ever.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

Paul Tillich

#8. In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.
Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

Samuel Beckett

#9. It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.

Junius

#10. I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.

Iman

#11. There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

Roland Barthes

#12. I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.

Pete Newell

#13. When you look at her what do you feel? ... Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, despair, love, lust?"
"Yes."
"Yes, what?"
"All of it.

Katja Millay

#14. I am struggling to understand you.

Rose Harris