Distraction And Deflection Quotes

#1. We Indians know about silence," he said. "We aren't afraid of it. In fact, to us it is more powerful than words.

Kent Nerburn

#2. Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

Helen Fisher

#3. When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of Congress for much of the time that President George W. Bush was in office, and they didn't do a great job of controlling spending.

Jay Carney

#4. Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Christopher Marlowe

#5. I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

Cormac McCarthy

#6. I'm willing to give up a little control but not a lot. So I say I want the money, but when push comes to shove, I'm not sure I'll be able to compromise in order to make the big studio movie. Maybe something in between would be okay, like a low-budget studio film.

Nicole Holofcener

#7. You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise when there is equal power to compel: in terms of practicality the dominant exact what they can and the weak concede what they must. (Said by Athenian envoy to the Melians)

Thucydides

#8. I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Corita Kent

#9. Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.

Jack London

#10. I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.

Ben Fountain

#11. Trust is: My hand on your heart and the light of love on your feet.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#12. Proclaim aloud the Saviour's fame, Who bears the Breaker's wond'rous name; Sweet name; and it becomes him well, Who breaks down earth, sin, death, and hell.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

Andy Garcia