Bedient Quotes & Sayings

(M)ediocre, (O)bedient, (D)ependent, (E)ntertained, and (L)ifeless and — MJ DeMarco

Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you've never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it's like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom. — David Foster Wallace

[JMW] Turner could make very little of the human figure once it got too close. — Cal Bedient

She'd learned that with her daughters. Don't say a word. Don't ask a question. Give them enough time and they'll finally tell you what's on their minds. It was like fishing. It took silence and patience. (Or so she'd heard. Cecilia would rather hammer nails into her forehead than go fishing.) Silence didn't come naturally to her. Cecilia was a talker. — Liane Moriarty

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse. — Charles Bukowski

I really cannot tolerate people who always find excuses or reasons why certain things won't work. Find reasons and solutions to make it work. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

You think too much," he says. "That's your problem. You're trying too hard to find the perfect answer when an answer will do — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Nihilism, narcissism, and hedonism are natural results of the chaotic existential subjectivism popularized by the Left. If the hallmark of the baby boomers was rebellion, the hallmark of my generation is jadedness. Nothing really matters - we're cosmically alone. — Ben Shapiro

Sometimes the path to higher self-esteem is lonely and frightening. We cannot fully know in advance how much more satisfying our lives will be. But the more we are willing to experience and accept the many aspects of who we are, the richer our inner worlds, the greater our resources, the more appropriate we feel to the challenges and opportunities of life. Also, it is more likely that we will find - or create - a style of existence that will meet our individual needs. — Nathaniel Branden

On the other hand, there is no more potent dwarfing of the present than by viewing it as a mere link between a glorious past and a glorious future. Thus, though a mass movement at first turns its back on the past, it eventually develops a vivid awareness, often specious, of a distant glorious past. Religious movements go back to the day of creation; social revolutions tell of a golden age when men were free, equal, and independent; nationalist movements revive or invent memories of past greatness. — Eric Hoffer

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is. — Ntozake Shange

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me. — Ben Whishaw

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid.
- That's what my head said. But my heart ... My stupid heart ... Her voice broke. It was singing. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips