2888 Quotes & Sayings

Fuck, I think. Just that. A multitude of various fucks all in one great big clusterfuck. As in: I am fucked if I want this ... this ... newborn imbecile. And she is so fucked if I take her. And fuck if I'm going to walk away. — Karen Marie Moning

If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient. — Ben Moreell

At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn't worked. It's a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage - even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity. — Terry Pratchett

As a writer, if someone falls in love with my work, I know they have fallen in love with my mind. Having no idea what my face looks like, they chose my mind. Art may be the only place a woman can be whole without being seen. — Nayyirah Waheed

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? — Ian McEwan

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count. — George Packer

We feel ever obliged by everday charges and tasks. They conscript us more and more. We find world enough in a frame. Until at last we take our places at the wheel, or wall, or line, having somewhere forgotten that we can look up. — Chang-rae Lee

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy. — John Grisham

I always like to remind leaders who talk about their search for balance that the word itself means a resting place between two opposing forces. — Greg Salciccioli

The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination. — Kendare Blake

God's anointing is not based on your performance, but if you don't open the Word, you're stupid, because that's where the words of life are. — Andrew Wommack

I think I was a born scientist. — Ken Wilber

You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will. — Warren Buffett

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. — Orson Welles

Loser is the one who reconcile to his lot. — M.H. Rakib