Barbarous Def Quotes & Sayings

a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength. — Holly Jacobs

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case. — Graham Norton

I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast. — John Irving

MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television for at least six months. Or as industry experts call it, The Conan. — Conan O'Brien

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood) — Tucker Max

And yet it was not the mystery, but the comedy of suffering that struck him; its absolute uselessness, its grotesque want of meaning. How incoherent everything seemed! How lacking in all harmony! He was amazed at the discord between the shallow optimism of the day, and the real facts of existence. He was still very young. — Oscar Wilde

Everything one used to take for granted, with so much certainty that one never even bothered to enquire about it, now turns out to be illusion. Your certainties are proven lies. And what happens if you start probing? Must you learn a wholly new language first?
'Humanity'. Normally one uses it as a synonym for compassion; charity; decency; integrity. 'He is such a human person.' Must one now go in search of an entirely different set of synonyms: cruelty; exploitation; unscrupulousness; or whatever? — Andre Brink

Just because you came from shit doesn't mean you're shit. You're so much better than what you've known and I bet you'll be a fucking awesome mom — Bijou Hunter

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert. — Alan Dershowitz

We can never cease to be ourselves. — Joseph Conrad

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed. — Thomas Carlyle

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation. — Harry Shearer

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas. — Dennis Rodman

Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self. — Mooji