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Otherness Quotes (page 113)

Of such dreams and of the rituals of them there can also be no end. The thing that is sought is altogether other. However it may be construed within men's dreams or by their acts it will never make a fit. These dreams and these acts are driven by a terrible hunger. They seek to meet a need which they can never satisfy, and for that we must be grateful. Cormac McCarthy
James Patterson quote: "All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two' I..."
All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two' I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others. James Patterson
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth. Mark Twain
This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that catch us off-guard, that break in our small bordered worlds. When this happens everything feels more spacious. Anne Lamott
Suzanne Collins quote: "we both know the other's survival means our own death"
we both know the other's survival means our own death Suzanne Collins
It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor [Charles I], that the religious spirit, when it mingles with faction, contains in it something supernatural and unaccountable; and that, in its operations upon society, effects correspond less to their known causes than is found in any other circumstance of government. David Hume
The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough. Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho quote: "- Whoever is capable of not minding what others say, is a man..."
- Whoever is capable of not minding what others say, is a man on the path to wisdom Paulo Coelho
W. Edwards Deming quote: "In God we trust; all others must bring data."
In God we trust; all others must bring data. W. Edwards Deming
Would you have wished more, or fewer, anarchists around in the Thousand Year Reich or any of the other fantasies of hierarchy? Christopher Hitchens
Sometimes you can see car crashes from a long way off, if the road is straight and both vehicles are heading towards each other in the same lane. Nick Hornby
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "A miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others..."
A miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Good and bad, and even the higher good that mysticism finds everywhere, are the reflections of our own emotions on other things, not part of the substance of things as they are in themselves. Bertrand Russell
The meta-physical creed, I shall maintain, is a mistaken outcome of the emotion, although this emotion, as colouring and informing all other thoughts and feelings, is the inspirer of whatever is best in Man. Bertrand Russell
As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create. Margaret Anderson

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