4850 Quotes & Sayings

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them; to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy; — George Orwell

Well," she said, "if I were the enemy commander, and our assault had failed three times, and I wanted to make a fourth, I don't think I'd attack with fewer men. But that's just me."
"Shut up, Loiosh."
"I beg your pardon?"
"Never mind. Private joke. — Steven Brust

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young. — Rebecca Goldstein

a poet is after all, to see — Ann Wood

If you could hear other people's thoughts, you'd overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn't know one from the other. It'd drive you insane. What's true? What's not? A million ideas, but what do they mean? — Jay Asher

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. — Henry Fielding

I could chase the shadows with him. As long as he was willing to let me bring the light in. — Jay Crownover

What can I say? Science is made of people, and people can be stupid. — Emily Nagoski

Death comes with the territory. See you in Disneyland.' "It — Mike Leon