Befated Quotes & Sayings

Make up a recipe for a successful revolution."
"Take large masses of injustice, resentment and frustration. Put them in a week or failing hegemon. Sir in misery for a generation or two, until the heat rises. Throw in destabilizing circumstances to taste. A tiny pinch of event to catalyze the whole. Once the main goal of the revolution is achieved, cool instantly to institutionalize the new order. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Life is both too short and too long to live it half-heartedly. — Melanie Gow

So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations. — Nikolai Berdyaev

He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In — Joyce Carol Oates

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best time is now. The best thing to do is what you are doing. So do your very best. — Debasish Mridha

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. — Dorothy Thompson

There's no scientific basis for zombieism
except for some experiments in the Caribbean with blowfish toxins that put people in a state of near death with almost imperceptible respiration and pulse, but there was no actual, you know, raising of the dead. — Christopher Moore

Wherever there's hope there's a trial. You're exactly right. Absolutely. Hope, however, is limited, and generally abstract, while there are countless trials, and they tend to be concrete. That is also something I had to learn on my own. — Anonymous

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins. — Brit Hume

The last man in the world was irretrievably stuck with his delusions. — Richard Matheson

Humans are always looking to make order out of chaos. — Michael Scott

Because you're the first woman I've ever met who completely captivated me. From the moment I saw you I knew I had to have you - I know how that sounds but it is absolutely true. Besides, you're the first woman that I've ever cared enough about to invite to spend the night and now that you said no you are also the first woman to say no to that. To top it off you are the only woman I have ever chased up the street while I was buck naked." He — Natalie Wild

Anger, Obed Ramotswe had explained to her once, is no more than a salt that we rub into our wounds. — Alexander McCall Smith