Nonischemic Quotes

#1. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

Shakti Gawain

#2. You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

Bill Henson

#3. The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

Socrates

#4. The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Alfred De Musset

#5. I was hot and horny as hell.
Which was typical of me. I'm twenty-five, and I'm healthy, and a healthy girl is always thinking about sex.

Fiona Thrust

#6. Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.

Jason Chaffetz

#7. People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

Jasmine Guinness

#8. Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.

Shane Snow

#9. It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

Joe Bradley

#10. I already know. And it has nothing to do with what you can see happening in my body; it's what's happening in my soul.

Paulo Coelho

#11. He's not a food fascist," I say, feeling an immediate need to defend Eric. "He just ... cares about nutrition." "He's Hitler. If he could round up every loaf of bread and put it in a camp, he would.

Sophie Kinsella

#12. Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

Stephen Fry

#13. Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

Jen Pollock Michel

#14. Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon.
"Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

Judith Merkle Riley