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“If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.”
Source : "Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit". Book by Richard Bach, 1994.
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“Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.”
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“Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.”
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“French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.”
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“I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker”
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“Some people make you feel better about living. Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this 'Ah', because there's something in them that's brighter or lighter, something beautiful or better than you, and here's the magic: instead of feeling worse, instead of feeling 'why am I so ordinary?', you feel just the opposite, you feel glad. In a weird way you feel better, because before this you hadn't realised or you'd forgotten human beings could shine so.”
Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.128, A&C Black
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“The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.”
Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”
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“There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country. That to me is a very basic, elementary, and uncomplicated question.”
