Appellatives Quotes & Sayings

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order. — Jeremy Bentham

Masculinity must be proved, and no sooner is it proved than it is again questioned and must be proved again-constant, relentless, unachievable, and ultimately the quest for proof becomes so meaningless that it takes on the characteristics, as Weber said, of a sport. He who has the most toys when he dies wins. — Michael S. Kimmel

Before you lose your children, you can talk about it-as a possibility, I mean [ ... ] But when the thing that you only imagined actually happens, you quickly discover that you can barely speak of it. Your story is jumbled and mumbled, out of sync and unfocused. At least that's how it has been for me. — Russell Banks

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow. — Seth Godin

The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools. — Santosh Kalwar

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization. — Serge Lang

We therefore need to be patient with ourselves, and look upon our sense of guilt as Witnesses! — Frank M. Wanderer