Screwtape Letter Famous Quotes & Sayings

More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering selves. Our experiencing selves tell researchers that we prefer doing the dishes
or napping, or shopping, or answering emails
to spending time with our kids. (I am very specifically referring here to Kahneman's study of 909 Texas women.) But our remembering selves tell researchers that no one
and nothing
provides us with so much joy as our children. It may not be the happiness we live day to day, but it's the happiness we think about, the happiness we summon and remember, the stuff that makes up our life-tales. — Jennifer Senior

Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait. — Toba Beta

Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you. — Jimi Hendrix

We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes. — Peter Landesman

Upon him the contempt of three planets descended. — Philip K. Dick

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving. — Herbert A. Simon

It's not about being in the right place at the right time; it's about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances. — Mark Batterson

I wanted to belong to someone, and for someone to belong to me. — R.K. Lilley