Fastidious famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • To know another's heart, you must first know your own.

  • Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.

  • It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

  • What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure. That once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.

  • I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

  • The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

  • ...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.

  • If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

  • In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

  • For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.