Raising My Son Right Quotes

#1. Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

Ernst W. Mayr

#2. Don't use language instrumentally

Jordan B. Peterson

#3. A fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.

Adam Gopnik

#4. You did it, didn't you?" Baz whispers. "You defeated the Humdrum. You saved the day, you courageous fuck. You absolute nightmare.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

Mike Dirnt

#6. This is hospitality at its core. This is the beat of my heart: to experience grace and nourishment, and to offer it, one in each hand, to every person I meet - grace and nourishment. You can rest. You don't have to starve.

Shauna Niequist

#7. I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

Madeleine Thien

#8. The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.

Seth

#9. In literature, you know only what you imagine

Carlos Fuentes

#10. Your powers of deductive reasoning are stunning," spits Tobias. "Consider me awed.

Veronica Roth

#11. Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#13. The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

Ouida

#14. I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

Mark Rydell