I Act Like Everythings Fine Quotes

#1. When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#2. Compulsion, guilt, pick your poison.' Meaty shrugged. 'You make a better nurse than a patient.

Cassie Alexander

#3. I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.

Jamaica Kincaid

#4. I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless, it's a social reality and has influenced how kids perceive things around them, the pace of life and the way people do things.

Seymour Papert

#5. It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

Cliff Martinez

#6. In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.

Jesmyn Ward

#7. Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Sue Grafton

#8. I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.

Fiona Apple

#9. I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

Max Martini

#10. But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Linda McCartney

#11. Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word water is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

Alan W. Watts

#12. It is the winners who write history - their way.

Elaine Pagels

#13. The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less he knows it.

G.K. Chesterton