48612 Quotes & Sayings

Out of curiosity, why would you have tried to destroy the world?"
"Ever attempted to hunt down a parking space at Christmas? Buy a shirt in a store the day after Thanksgiving? Those two things alone will make you doubt the humanity of humans, and question if survival of the species is in anyone's best interest. What are we fighting for, anyway? Better department store sales? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen. — Sarah Addison Allen

How many times have I missed an incredible connection that could have been made because I had my face in my phone instead of paying attention to those around me? — Adam Braun

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. — Slavoj Zizek

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers. — Chuck Eddy

The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg. — P.G. Wodehouse

People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds. — Jonathan Haidt