Repentant Magdalene Quotes

#1. Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

Dizzy Gillespie

#2. There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Iris Murdoch

#3. A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Heraclitus

#5. Having created these cognitively enhanced creatures, the safest option at the time appeared to be to launch them into interstellar space.

Alastair Reynolds

#6. The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

Byron Katie

#7. As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

Otis Redding

#8. The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

Kerry Washington

#9. How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend the conditions of our lives.

Larissa Lai

#10. I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are not what they might be. It begins with a sense of a lack, of something missing, and that provokes a series of questions.

Simon Critchley

#11. Look, people go on and on about how size isn't everything, and how the bigger they are, the harder they fall, but the people who say that probably haven't ever faced down a charging demon-bear so big it should have been on a drive-in movie screen.

Jim Butcher