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Otherness Quotes (page 177)

Rita Rudner quote: "When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary..."
When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other. Rita Rudner
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity. Tacitus
When compared to eternal verities, most of the questions and concerns of daily living are really rather trivial. What should we have for dinner? What color should we paint the living room? Should we sign Johnny up for soccer? These questions and countless others like them lose their significance when times of crisis arise, when loved ones are hurt or injured, when sickness enters the house of good health, when life’s candle dims and darkness threatens. Our thoughts become focused, and we are... Thomas S. Monson
God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others. John Piper
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea to stop being young this minute, to wait for youth to break away from you and pass you by, to watch it going away, receding in the distance, to see all its vanity, run your hand through the empty space it has left behind, take a last look at it, and then start moving, make sure your youth has really gone, and then calmly, all by yourself, cross to the other side of... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Lao Tzu quote: "So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one..."
So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other; Lao Tzu
You don't care what others think - which might be understandable. But you don't care even to make them think as you do?"No."But that's...that's monstrous."Is it? Probably. I couldn't say. Ayn Rand
Stephenie Meyer quote: "you can't hurt each other without hurting me"
you can't hurt each other without hurting me Stephenie Meyer
Marcel Proust quote: "It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying..."
It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying. Marcel Proust
Marie Corelli quote: "Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel"
Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel Marie Corelli
Saul Bellow quote: "Sentiment and brutality, never one without the other, like..."
Sentiment and brutality, never one without the other, like fossils and oil. Saul Bellow
a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient without action Howard Zinn
I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other selves, their imaginative selves, the selves that aren’t on show in the world. It’s something you grow out of from childhood onwards, losing possession of yourself, really. I think literature is one of the best ways back into that. You are hypnotized as soon as you get into a book that particularly works for you, whether it’s fiction or a poem. You find that your defenses drop, and as soon as that happens, an... Jeanette Winterson
This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things ‘are,’ while others, which well might be, ‘are not. Andre Breton
J. K. Rowling quote: "Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people..."
Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. J. K. Rowling

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