Nell Fortner Quotes

#1. Pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene

Victor Hugo

#2. I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.

David Korten

#3. It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.

Fred Rogers

#4. Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.

Bertrand Russell

#5. His anguish, he wrote, had multiple sources, from a fear of fame to a fear of failure. Behind the ordinary fears lurked the fear of being ordinary.

D.T. Max

#6. You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.

Niecy Nash

#7. Science tells you love is just a chemical reaction in the brain,
Let me be your Bunsen burner baby, let me be your naked flame!

John Otway

#8. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

John Galt

#9. You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]

Dr. Seuss

#10. The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

Andre Breton

#11. When I'm away from you I am lost.
But when I'm with you, I am lost in you.

Eliza Freed