Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence. "
To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i. e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
The only thing that will really matter at the end of your life is: Did you love completely?
The diagnosis is clear, the science in unequivocal-it's completely immoral, even, to question now, on the basis of what we know, the reports that are out, to question the issue and to question whether we need to move forward at a much stronger pace as humankind to address the issues.
I just never want to completely grow up.
We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. . . bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.
One common adage. . . that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.
We were at another funeral party. I wasn’t sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude.
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.
My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.