Thomas M. Disch quote: "It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational."

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The fact of mountains. The actuality
Of any stone — by kickin...
THOMAS M. DISCH

In any case, muffins that are only imaginary aren't liable to get stuck.
THOMAS M. DISCH

But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that ...
THOMAS M. DISCH

The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day se...
THOMAS M. DISCH

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Suc...
THOMAS M. DISCH

The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just li...
THOMAS M. DISCH

He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. THOMAS M DISCH

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
THOMAS DISCH

I'm most impressed with how the team played defense and how we kept our composure at the end of the ...
DOUG DISCH

I'm really proud of how we played the first half. We are still searching for a complete game.
DOUG DISCH

Ripon really put us in disorder with their press. A lot of intensity and ball pressure caused way to...
DOUG DISCH

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.
JOHN M. THOMAS

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
JOHN M. THOMAS

This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. ...
THOMAS M SMITH

The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.
M. THOMAS GAMMARINO

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained...
THOMAS M. CIRIGNANO

It takes courage to practice compassion, and emotional intelligence to practice empathy. Both are ke...
DONNA M THOMAS

Please don't shoot the Buddha! What is he/she/it teaching you today?
DONNA M THOMAS

The reason many do not allow change in their life is because they fear the unknown. Get bold! Follow...
DONNA M THOMAS

Our conscious evolution ensues as we begin to remove the layers we hide behind.
DONNA M THOMAS

Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.
D. M. THOMAS

We are all teachers, and we teach what we most need to learn, over and over again, until we get it.
DONNA M THOMAS

At the very core of every human being is the deep need to both love and be loved. Remember this in a...
DONNA M THOMAS

In loving, be clear on the difference between intensity and intimacy. Are you more committed to reve...
DONNA M THOMAS

Have patience. In times of indecision and confusion, certainty is often just one insight away.
DONNA M THOMAS

The antithesis of love is Fear, not anger. At the core of all persistent or long-term emotional suff...
DONNA M THOMAS

The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching mater...
THOMAS M. STEEN

All your experiences, and more importantly your responses to them, determine who you are today.
DONNA M THOMAS

Choose love, release fear. Choose love, release fear. Choose love, release fear over and over again ...
DONNA M THOMAS

To love yourself completely, in spite of all your faults and foibles, is THE work. For only when you...
DONNA M THOMAS

First do for yourself what you ask of others.
DONNA M THOMAS

We could probably win more often if we were willing to deploy seasoned personnel and equip them with...
THOMAS M. FRANCK

In loving, be clear on the difference between intensity and intimacy.
DONNA M THOMAS

Being right doesn’t make us safe…or happy. It is more fulfilling to aim for authenticity and tra...
DONNA M THOMAS

Grace is always waiting in the wings to rush forward on our behalf.
DONNA M THOMAS

When all is said and done, by what are we measured? By the body of choices we have made through toda...
DONNA M THOMAS

Happiness is being at peace with what is. It is trusting that your past was, your present is, and yo...
DONNA M THOMAS

The Universe is always, Always, ALWAYS conspiring on your behalf and for your highest good.
DONNA M THOMAS

The need for control is most often an attempt to create feelings of trust and safety. Let go and hon...
DONNA M THOMAS

Have patience. A person does the best they can, otherwise they would do better.
DONNA M THOMAS

It is crucial, in our evolution, to think for ourselves and to question authority. In this practice,...
DONNA M THOMAS

One must be in right relationship with oneself to maintain healthy relationships with others. You'd ...
DONNA M THOMAS

From the flow within does one’s outer life take its shape. The stronger the current the more signi...
DONNA M THOMAS

If everyone knew they made a difference, what a difference we could make.
DONNA M THOMAS

Keep your Eyes on your Vision, and your Vision will find You.
DONNA M THOMAS

Your life ISN’T a result of your history. Your life is a result of what you ‘decided’ the even...
DONNA M THOMAS

Your future and your past are being created in this very moment. Now that's power. What are you choo...
DONNA M THOMAS

I am not always correct about what I am certain.
DONNA M THOMAS

Are you living in S.I.N. (Sunk Into Negativity)? Or, are you living in J.O.Y. (Jubilant Omnipresent ...
DONNA M THOMAS

In forgiving, say: I forgive you. I forgive me. I ask that you forgive yourself, and I ask that you ...
DONNA M THOMAS

When you work right, so does everything else.
DONNA M THOMAS

Have difficulty trusting? Dedicate yourself to being trustworthy and in alignment to who you say you...
DONNA M THOMAS

You will know you have fully forgiven when you forget that you forgave.
DONNA M THOMAS

For maximum health, every day be sure to eat from each of the 5 food groups: protein, vegetables, fr...
DONNA M THOMAS

Grace: The power of the omnipresent, exquisite Divine (the governing force that lives in and through...
DONNA M THOMAS

Never test the depth of a river with both feet...unless it's a river of love.
DONNA M THOMAS

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.
M. THOMAS GAMMARINO

...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire t...
M. THOMAS GAMMARINO

We're all prostitutes if you think about it. The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousnes...
M. THOMAS GAMMARINO

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.

Great and good are seldom the same man.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.

The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.

I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M

-I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M

Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
M. M. COADY

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
M. WARD

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When ...
M. WARD

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
M. WARD

When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out i...
M. WARD

I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to ...
M. WARD

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal mean...
M. WARD

I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearin...
M. WARD

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that ba...
M. WARD

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck...
M. WARD

The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
M. WARD

I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough...
M. WARD

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make ex...
M. WARD

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around ...
M. WARD

I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably ...
M. WARD

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. WARD

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
M. WARD

I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from arti...
M. WARD

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to tw...
M. WARD

There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent im...
M. WARD

I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I apprec...
M. WARD

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. WARD

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
M. WARD

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certa...
M. WARD

I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The pas...
M. WARD

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
M. GRUNDLER

Ability is a poor man's wealth.
M. WREN

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
M. GRUNDLER

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaning...
M. CARTMILL

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto fo...
M. WARD

I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was ...
M. WARD

Often I find my mind drifting to moments where you held my hands, your soft lips graze against mine ...
M WARFIELD

It goes to show that even though three lay witnesses say he was surrendering and retreating when he ...
M. POWELL

If science is a pyramid, then the Physics is the base (serves all other branches), and the Astronomy...
M ANSSARY

What I don't think this man realizes is that he's giving my dreams--and my nightmares--a new name. <...
M. LEIGHTON

best friends are always going to pick you up when your down, make you happy when your sad, and have ...
ANISA M

You are the most beautiful and perfect dream that is my realty. Your existence is proof that dreams ...
M WARFIELD

Often, He'd gaze up deep through the dark canopy of twinkling stars and wondered about this planet L...
M WARFIELD

Now you can catch AIDS red-handed, ... You can see the damage it inflicts on the brain in great deta...
M. THOMPSON

I had so many failed relationships, now I'm afraid to think of the future when on a new one
ARIAN M

I gotta be honest, I kinda like the idea of death. Because if I could live forever I'd probably neve...
VANDA M

Narrated Abu Huraira: "Allah's Messenger (sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "By Him in Whose Hands...
TAMIM M

My wife told me I’m always watching TV and never paying attention to her. So she got a job as a ne...
MUNTAZIR M.

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perha...
M. HIRSCHFIELD

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is...
M. HENRY

A lie eventually leads to a loss of promise, A loss of promise leads to a loss of trust, But what hu...
MADELIN M.

Find a sanctuary with fireflies, trust me there is no life on stars.
ASHRAF, M.

You know world can conspire and put us two crazy kids in any room... Then fill it up with millions o...
M WARFIELD

Love is like a bleeding rose
MADELIN M.

Friendship is the most powerful thing in the world, It is like life or death, It can either get heal...
MADELIN M.

I'm sorry, Did my back hurt your knife?
MADELIN M.

Be carefull if you'r trying to get to my heart, you could cut yourself on the pieces from last time ...
ARIAN M

Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness, therefore if they don't show their ...
MADELIN M.

I had a nightmare. So my friend asked me what it was. I told him it was him sleeping with my mom. He...
MUNTAZIR M.

You can have all the information on culture in the world–’ Pix continues.
'We don’t posse...
M. BLACK

I wished them the harshest depths and punishments of hell, all of them, but only because the punishm...
M. NOVA

Memories of your dimples, giggles and wrinkles on your nose, gives me hope that true love is still p...
M WARFIELD

Change is life's way of weeding out nuisance's while forcing you to see a different prospective
M WARFIELD

Human beings seem too caught up making excuses for their selfish tendencies rather than trying to im...
GARY M

Was there anything obstructing your view?
M. POWELL

These particular moths have not been recorded as major economic pests for farmers, but it is a rare ...
M. HOPKINS

Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that femal...
M. AGEYEV

Some people lie and never tell the truth so won't hurt the person they love. Some people lie and the...
VANDA M

When you look up in the sky at night and see that one star shining brightly, You know that a friend ...
MADELIN M.

We all have the same engine (brain), the driving capabilities define the IQ.
M ANSSARY

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I wo...
M. AGEYEV

Just do it. Now.
M. YEATS

Writers are not narcissists. They simply acknowledge that what they find interesting is not unique t...
M CHAPMAN

People are different and changing.
M ANSSARY

Home is a kingdom, Husband is the king, and the Wife is the Prime-minister.
M ANSSARY

Marriage is like a home; the husband is the roof, and the wife is the main billar.
M ANSSARY

Deeds and Talks are in balance, the more of one of them, the less of the other.
M ANSSARY

Life is like a mesh, where you stand is a result of your previous choices, choose where you want to ...
M ANSSARY

Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging i...
M. JONES

Friends forever that's what we said, I'll be there for you until the end, for if I die before you i'...
MADELIN M.

I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and beg...
M. AGEYEV

He drew me like gravity.
M. LEIGHTON

Love. It felt like a falling raindrop scatter on a trembling leaf then roll of its tip in a cascade ...
PRABHUKRISHNA M

It seems impossible to wheedle his way out of his impending death. No one has before him. But just a...
M. STARKS

Blood that was warm has now run cold
bled every day have hearts become old
Telling I am th...
PRABHUKRISHNA M

If you feel alone take topic make conversation with your soul. it gives more positive attention to k...
BHOOPAL M

I live well with very little things but not without my dignity
RUI M.

Jack coughed slightly and offered his hand. “Hi, uh. I’m Jack.”
Kim took it. “Jack what...
KYOKO M.

I swear to Vishnu, if this doesn’t work, I’m going to stab you in the throat with a Pipette.
KYOKO M.

I own your balls, huh !" She grinned, laughing." I'll have to remember that the next time you give m...
M ROBINSON

എനിക്കൊരു ദുഖവും ഇല്ലമ്മേ. ഒരുപക്ഷെ �...
M. MUKUNDAN

സ്നേഹമെന്ന ഒന്നില്ല"
"ഇത് പലരും പറഞ�...
M. MUKUNDAN

Vaya con Dios, bitch.
KYOKO M.

Honest to God, I hadn’t meant to start a bar fight.
“So. You’re the famous Jordan Amador....
KYOKO M.

Take this message to your people, you obsequious little worm,” I murmured. “Anyone who lays a ha...
KYOKO M.

They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane.
M. GRUNDLER

This area is not open to the public so you can't just walk in and browse around.
M. HARDMAN

You get a few who might come in but they're not successful,
M. HARDMAN

In other cases the proof is with a detective like John who would have a chat with you and get you to...
M. HARDMAN

The more details we're given then the easier it is to get things back to their owners,
M. HARDMAN

The phone company can also be asked to make contact with the owner,
M. HARDMAN

We have a 100 per cent disposal rate, ... We don't keep anything.
M. HARDMAN

They were very lucky because unfortunately it's sad to say but people who lose large sums of money d...
M. HARDMAN

The owner came in the door very shortly after and was able to say where they dropped it when they we...
M. HARDMAN

There is no such thing as an unusual item,
M. HARDMAN

So for us it was great to see it still being done and also bring that back here, ... We are connecte...
M. POWELL

With the help of Courtney and local volunteers across western NSW we are hoping to send a strong mes...
M. POWELL

Even in Ghana everyone wants to be Western. The young people don't want to hold on to the traditiona...
M. POWELL

He's going to tell you that when you're in a situation like this, the first thing you do is get out ...
M. POWELL

People are openly making the argument that there is no point rebuilding a city that is located betwe...
M. HOPKINS

Under the right circumstances, for an average or low-risk patient, the mortality risk is very low, ....
M. WOLFE

These studies demonstrate that there are vulnerable patient populations and potential additional cos...
M. WOLFE

I'm barely hanging on by a thread here now, ... If these people have to go, I cannot afford to keep ...
M. WOLFE

The brain becomes a kind of sanctuary where the drugs can't follow,
M. THOMPSON

The drugs clearly aren't stopping the destruction of brain tissue,
M. THOMPSON

We have counted on customers realizing they need big processors to anchor their Web serving e-commer...
M. THOMPSON

My strategy embraces Microsoft and includes them in everything I do,
M. THOMPSON

theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body
KEN M

People never understand who you are, until If you're popular or talented.
BHOOPAL M

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES

Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

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It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

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