Tortuously Quotes

#1. Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don't see it, because we see with it.

Rebecca Goldstein

#2. There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere ... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals ...

Ben Stein

#3. We white folks cling to such an abiding sense of entitlement that when things go amiss, we cannot let go of this tortuously sunny, idiotically cheerful doppelganger of a world that we deserve in which life is swell.

Lionel Shriver

#4. The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.

Frederick Lenz

#5. This is a free country...you can do almost anything you want.

John Grisham

#6. I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

Steve Jobs

#7. Ty's eyes lit up. They still moved restlessly around Kit as if he were reading him, examining him, never quite meeting Kit's own, but that didn't dim their glow.

Cassandra Clare

#8. In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.

John De Ruiter