Backwashing Quotes & Sayings

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs. — Naomi Wolf

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience. — Michel De Montaigne

Why did you become a journalist?"
"Better than working for a living. — Leslie Cockburn

The cause of my profound sense of incompatibility with others is, I believe, that most people think with their feelings, whereas I feel with my thoughts.
For the ordinary man, to feel is to live, and to think is to know how to live. For me, to think is to live, and to feel is merely food for thought. — Fernando Pessoa

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. — Alyce Cornyn-Selby

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance. — Mariah Nelson

Treacherous ashes hide
The fires through which you stride — Horace

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return. — Subramanya Bharathi

Hak Nam rose before her as she waded nearer, but with a dream's logic it grew no closer. Backwashing sea, sucking at her ankles. The Walled City is growing. Being grown. From the fabric of the beach, wrack and wreckage of the world before things changed. Unthinkable tonnage, dumped here by barge and bulk-lifter in the course of the great reconstruction. The minuscule bugs of Rodel-van Erp seethe there, lifting the iron-caged balconies that are sleeping rooms, countless unplanned windows throwing blank silver rectangles back against the fog. A thing of random human accretion, monstrous and superb, it is being reconstituted here, retranslated from its later incarnation as a realm of consensual fantasy. The — William Gibson

coveralls to the — Maggie Brendan

To honor the people that died, we need to stop the Iran agreement, for sure, because the Iranian mullahs have their blood on their hands, and we need to take out ISIS with every tool at our disposal. — Jeb Bush

I would do my damn best to be more happy than not. — Adam Silvera