Sfondato Effect Quotes

#1. Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

Nawal El Saadawi

#2. Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, life to the limit.

John Eldredge

#3. Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

Dennis Miller

#4. Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

John Wayne

#5. We cannot exercise our faith beyond what we believe to be possible.

John G. Lake

#6. The first step toward a genuine theory of consciousness, I believe, is the realization that consciousness is not located in the organism. Rather, consciousness is a four-quadrant affair, and it exists, if it exists at all, distributed across all four quadrants, anchored equally in each.12

Ken Wilber

#7. Clarke grabbed his hand, and together, they started down the staircase into the darkness.

Kass Morgan

#8. A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

Anatole France

#9. Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar.

J. Robbins

#10. Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.

Brian Roberts

#11. I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.

Eve Ensler

#12. Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.

Ann Voskamp

#13. The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

Alfred H. Barr Jr.

#14. I take the measure of the ridiculous, superfluous cats who wander through our lives with all the placidity and indifference of an imbecile are in fact the guardians of life's good and joyful moments, and of its happy web, even beneath the canopy of misfortune.

Muriel Barbery

#15. I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.

Drew Goddard