Makkai Trans Quotes

#1. Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#2. Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

Harry Browne

#3. I asked this question: How can I think about my brain when it's my brain doing the thinking? So is this brain pretending to be me thinking about it?

E.L. Doctorow

#4. When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Yann Martel

#5. I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem
as I calculate it, of course
and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd.

Harriet Lerner

#6. It is sweet to remember that the exaltation of Christ in heaven is a representative exaltation.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

Alice Hoffman

#8. People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

Morgan Freeman

#9. Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now to know sympathy for someone who had been carried by jealousy this one terrible step too far, to murder.

Diana Trilling

#10. Clavain was looking at a hyperpig: a genetic chimera of pig and human.

Alastair Reynolds

#11. When we are learning the world, we know things we cannot say how we know. When we are relearning the world in the aftermath of a loss, we feel things we had almost forgotten, old things, beneath the seat of reason.

Meghan O'Rourke

#12. Survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences.

Neal Shusterman

#13. Yet for every peak there is a valley.

Garth Stein