Beforeout Quotes & Sayings

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble. — Margaret Fuller

I can offer you only: this world like a knife — John Berryman

Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else. — Michael E. Mann

No matter how beautiful women are, they're always worried that they aren't attractive enough. They need to be reassured. A few don't, but even they appreciate the attention. — Michael Schmicker

His closed-eye appearances had deceived many visitors, I was told, but they might then find, to their cost, that these closed eyes veiled the sharpest attention, the clearest and deepest mind, they were ever likely to encounter. On — Oliver Sacks

Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting. — Milton Friedman

I'm alive. This might be the first time I've ever really been alive in my whole fucking miserable life. This moment is what causes wars to start. The only books worth reading have been written about those lips. — Gregory Sherl

To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn't had any training. — Queen Latifah

The disruption of the anticipated American future that was simply to have unrolled out of the solid American past, out of each generation's getting smartersmarter for knowing the inadequacies and limitations of the generations beforeout of each new generation's breaking away from the parochialism a little further, out of the desire to go the limit in America with your rights, forming yourself as an ideal person who gets rid of the traditional Jewish habits and attitudes, who frees himself of the pre-America insecurities and the old, constraining obsessions so as to live unapologetically as an equal among equals. — Philip Roth

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often. — Earl Weaver

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. — Ted Turner