AtomicQuote

Lynne Truss Quote

In her autobiographical Giving Up the Ghost (2003), Hilary Mantel reveals: I have always been addicted to something or other, usually something there’s no support group for. Semicolons, for instance, I can never give up for more than two hundred words at a time.

Lynne Truss

In her autobiographical Giving Up the Ghost (2003), Hilary Mantel reveals: I have always been addicted to something or other, usually something there’s no support group for. Semicolons, for instance, I can never give up for more than two hundred words at a time.

Related Quotes

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Tags: funny, good, humor, evil, humour, wicked, atheism, bad, satire, wish

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Tags: art, philosophy

I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy,...

C. JoyBell C.

I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy,...

Tags: happiness, inspirational, life and living, being happy, genuineness, inspirational happiness, true happiness

Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.

Germany Kent

Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.

Tags: change, hope, inspirational, motivational, peace, goodness, humanity, kindness, motivation, inspirational attitude

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

indonesia123

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

Tags: beauty, god, self respect, humility, adoration, ego, vanity, honor, pride, blessing

The best fighter is never angry.

Lao Tzu

The best fighter is never angry.

Tags: anger, serenity, inner peace, self control, martial arts, anger management, ataraxy, warrior ethos, warriorship, bushido

The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....

Ray Kurzweil

The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....

Tags: mind, ai

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Arthur Schopenhauer

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Tags: compassion, suffering, empathy, caring, action, morality, force, ethics, concern, affect

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

Kamand Kojouri

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

Tags: life, truth, acceptance, lost, find, ego, contradiction, remember, self, character

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Amit Kalantri

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Tags: inspirational, knowledge, motivational, wisdom, philosophy, soul, self respect, charity, writing, tolerance