Aristeas Quotes & Sayings

Originality breeds contempt. People will be jealous (in other words, 'hate') and the first thing out of their mouth is 'they don't get it'. Only when time and market share expands and the rest of the world is doing the exact thing you came up with first, will you be perceived as being normal since everyone else is doing it. When in truth, time has finally caught up to you. — Corey Aaron Burkes

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self. — Gao Xingjian

There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it. — Neko Case

Ali, Son of the Father of the Seeker
Ali said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think that the Path itself may be wrong. This is because those who can only believe that it must be right are not believers, but people who are incapable of thinking otherwise than they already think. Such people are not men at all. Like animals they must follow certain beliefs, and during this time they cannot learn. Because they cannot be called "humanity", they cannot arrive at the Truth. — Idries Shah

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater. — Bryan Batt

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. — George Bernard Shaw

He sat looking down at his hands
his fine strong unscarred hands. Suddenly and unreasonably he thought of another pair of hands
his mother's
with the knuckles enlarged, the skin broken
expressive
her life written on them. Scars. She had them. — Edna Ferber

Chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists. — Arthur C. Clarke

Life is a story. Make yours the best seller. — Unknown

It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year. — William Galston

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite. — Elie Wiesel

I came to therapy thinking that my sexuality didn't matter, but it turned out that every part of my personality was intimately connected. Cutting one piece damaged the rest. — Garrard Conley

If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation. — Jack Welch

Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at. — Oscar Wilde

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it. — Slobodan Milosevic