14forward Quotes & Sayings

What is disquieting is that where the USSR and its policies are concerned one cannot expect intelligent criticism or even, in many cases, plain honesty from Liberal [ sic - and throughout as typescript] writers and journalists who are under no direct pressure to falsify their opinions. — George Orwell

I'm going to run away now," says Gat. "Don't take it personally."
"Okay."
"It's better for the starting over if I run. Because walking will just be awkward."
"I said okay."
"Okay, then."
And he runs. — E. Lockhart

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late. — Jonas Salk

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor. — Moliere

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource. — John Green

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small. — Aldous Huxley

If you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Fear is the original sin," wrote John Foster. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something. — L.M. Montgomery

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me. — Carter Burwell

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again. — Bobby Jindal