Entropically Favorable Reaction Quotes

#1. Trust doesn't mean that you trust that someone won't screw up - it means you trust them even when they do screw up.

Ed Catmull

#2. Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well.

Betty Smith

#3. In the second half of life, we do not have strong and final opinions about everything, every event, or most people, as much as we allow things and people to delight us, sadden us, and truly influence us.

Richard Rohr

#4. Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

F.L. Lucas

#5. I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.

Terry Hayes

#6. Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

Henrik Ibsen

#7. I remember having a friend overnight, and lots of giggling after the lights were out. And seemingly long silences followed by "Are you asleep yet?" and, sometimes, some pretty serious discussions about God and Life.

Joe Brainard