Nonformal Quotes

#1. Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

Michael Polanyi

#2. Do what?she asked, leaning forward, imagining what he had in mind that they might do and would it include her hands on his dragon.

Ophelia London

#3. I eat like no other; it drives everyone crazy. I eat donuts three times a day, and I probably go through four Mountain Dews a day. I'm on, like, a sugar high at all times, pretty much.

Britt Robertson

#4. If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?

David Augsburger

#5. I don't hold memories in my hand, but I'll never let them go.

Esther M. Friesner

#6. Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

Robert Quillen

#7. Are there rules?'
'No gods, no staffs, first man to stay down for the count loses and we suspend the contest if the building collapses.'
- on magical duels

Ben Aaronovitch

#8. Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...

Morgan

#9. I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

Katherine Mansfield

#10. This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.

Martin Luther

#11. All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

#12. The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#13. Do you think we can just take it on faith right now that I want you, you want me, and we'll figure out the happy ending part later?

Katie McGarry

#14. Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.

Taylor Hanson

#15. I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.

Forrest Gregg

#16. Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.

Anne Lamott