Barracudas Locust Quotes & Sayings

Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship - that of parent and child - begins entirely with a coincidence. The child is produced by whatever serendipity brought its parents together, and the fact that the child was born to its particular parents instead of to another couple is pure happenstance. Thus, children have no choice over the relationship that is most important to their existence.
By contrast, friends and lovers choose each other, but even these choices are reactions to whatever random coincidence made the resulting relationship possible. — Zack Love

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,
all in one. — Samuel Richardson

She liked his honesty? "Why?" "Because it's part of who you are, a person you're comfortable with. Most of the time, I see people who don't like themselves, so they seek to change or alter their appearance, which is an insidious sort of lie. Reshaping their nose or chin or lips is the easy way, but it doesn't really work. — Julie Rowe

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [ ... ] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The prerequisite for a banker is Strait As and no talent. — Grant McLachlan

The son of a bitch blew up my laptop. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term. — Philip Green

Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

All parents wash away their sins with their tears; you are not the only one. — Maxim Gorky

The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not to admit. One must set themselves free from all inhibitions in order to initiate close encounters with their innermost monster. By standing toe-to-toe with the part of ourselves that we most detest, a person is in a position to slay their fiendish sense of self and, by doing so, undergo a soulful transformation. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are. — Amy Poehler

And don't try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty. — Kim Harrison

Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing. — Eleanor Morse