11379 Quotes & Sayings

If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite. — Neal Stephenson

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now. — Douglas Coupland

All things which are similar and therefore connected, are drawn to each other's power. — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force. — Angry Zodd

Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective. — Nancy Duarte

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life. — Sergei Lukyanenko

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. — Chris Ware

What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch? — Yann Martel