Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.
The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.
was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.
Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there’s never a guarantee that their second attempt will work out.
We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever; to capture moments; to capture Time itself.
Yet hopefully things are different now, and I'm moving on to something better rather than attempting to suck more out of the same stale situation.
Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.
There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.
Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
