Quotes of: Significant-other Keyword

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

Unwrapping Christmas

We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we'd never get anything done.

Villains Rising

But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean

Witch's Canyon

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

Womenagerie and Other Tales from the Front

That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of their being, in contrast to other races, inferior in intelligence - which, however, does not justify such slavery

On The Will In Nature

A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

War Is Kind and Other Poems

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

The World and Other Places: Stories

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

The Way of the Sufi

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Walden and Other Writings

Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can't resist seeing how it happens.

You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News

... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.

Zero Hour And Other Documentary Poems

If you have a strong sense of who you are and what you're doing, then it's actually easier to work with other people, because you don't have to worry about them or yourself. You're just worrying about getting the best product, and all that other stuf...

Eliza Coupe

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

Jon Ronson

You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

Cambridge Blue

Accept the universe As the gods gave it to you. If the gods wanted to give you something else They’d have done it. If there are other matters and other worlds There are.

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

Solaris

He may really have been enjoying an embryonic composition of his own stimulated by mere hints in the book.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature