“A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you're sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.” WorldLoveMadeFeelingsLeftSeeingListeningBlindRoseNotionSorryRoundsRadioRidiculousHammers Author:David Sedaris
“Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.” PeopleLooksMightWould BeLeftSocialBehindsResponsibilityStepsModernDutyActivityResponsibleStriveNotionRealmsRejectsHierarchyDictionaryBeing ResponsibleRejectingSlackerSocial Hierarchy Author:Richard Linklater
“My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.” ShouldMatterHandsLeftHistoricalNotionRecognitionExpertsHistorian Author:Shinzo Abe
“There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.” HumansLeftDestinyAtheismWorshipNotionPositive AtheismDuesObedienceUnseen Book:A Common Faith Source: A Common Faith
“There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions of the matter--and hide things lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. This is a sort of magpie faculty. If anything is left where you want it, it is called litter. There is a pedantry in housewifery, as well as in the gravest concerns. Abraham Tucker complained that whenever his maid servant had been in his library, he could not see comfortably to work again for several days.” IfsWantShouldWellsPersonsBookMatterOrderLostLeftEasyPaperConcernNotionLibraryServantOwnersFacultyPapersAbrahamMaidsPedantryMagpies Author:William Hazlitt
“You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.” KnowsWayYearsKindNextLeftPaintingDatingDepthNotionRadioFinishedPassagesCarbonAbyssUnfinishedThe Next OnePassage Of TimeUnfathomableBlown AwayCharcoal Author:Werner Herzog