Quotes About Afterwardness

#1. It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

George Eliot

#2. The new technologies allow us to "dial down" human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.

Sherry Turkle

#3. Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Igor Stravinsky

#4. Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

Thomas A Kempis

#5. Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

R.C. Sproul

#6. Instead of just purchasing an ad campaign, target test and measure. Give an ad a small try. If the response is enough to pay for the ad, make it larger. With a franchise, ask the most successful franchisees what they did. Ask the bottom five guys what they did and avoid it.

Dave Ramsey

#7. I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out

Christina Ricci

#8. People didn't always love who they should, or the ones who were good for them.

Nalini Singh

#9. Enough mind chatter. I imagined every thought encapsulated in a bubble; I exhaled them into the world. Gradually the noise ceased, and my mind was dark and still.

Rachel Hartman

#10. E lost his childhood but in return got worthy wealth, the wisdom ... !

M.H. Rakib

#11. Theirs is a devotion that is possible only because of their equal disappointments in each other and the knowledge they share that at one time, to the one who mattered, they were each separately enough.

Emily Ruskovich

#12. Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.

Daphne Merkin

#13. I can't do impressions.

Ellie Kemper

#14. Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

Shunryu Suzuki

#15. What we are after is first noticing and then participating in the way the large world of the Bible absorbs the much smaller world of our science and economics and politics that provides the so-called worldview in which we are used to working out our daily concerns.

Eugene H. Peterson