Precognitive Paranoia Quotes

#1. Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper.

Jeannette Walls

#2. What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his lungs, a difficulty that he supposed would go on forever.

Alice Munro

#3. I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.

Michael Chabon

#4. In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Kofi Annan

#5. I fell in love. Why can't I fall out of it?" He got a look on his face, which I knew meant he was making a mental note of that line too.

Marshall Thornton

#6. The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.

Alex Pareene

#7. Fabulous. This night had shifted from the best to bad to Saw in record time.

Katie McGarry

#8. But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

Joan D. Vinge

#9. Better
while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.

Lola Ridge

#10. The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

Martin Rees

#11. I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Hermann Hesse

#12. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy.
Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love.
Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful.
Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.

Rob Bell

#13. At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed?

Steve Almond