Rationalising Versus Quotes

#1. Hear with your ears, listen with your heart.

John R. Childress

#2. Of course the play as I wrote it amounted to nothing; but in weaving the plot through successive scenes, and in writing out some of the dialogues, I enjoyed the full bliss of literary creation. Never to have tasted this delight is never to have known one of the greatest joys of life.

Carl Schurz

#3. Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.

Alan Moore

#6. Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

Agatha Christie

#7. That's the wonderful thing about the human heart, there's room enough for all kinds of love.

Heather Gudenkauf

#8. The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

Baltasar Gracian

#9. When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

Jesse Harris

#10. Which Painters hold, and such the heritage This gentle solemn Spirit doth possess, Being a better mirror of his age In all his pity, love, and weariness, Than those who can but copy common things, And leave the Soul unpainted with its mighty questionings. But

Oscar Wilde

#11. I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!

Natasha Henstridge

#12. She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again.

Glenda Millard

#13. An instinct is weakened when it rationalises itself: for by rationalising itself it weakens itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche