Being Badtrip Quotes & Sayings

The horror that riveted through me, the absolute terror with a taint of nausea, stunned me speechless for three, maybe four seconds. I put the mug down and made a cross with my fingers, screaming, "Death before decaf!" as Garrett poured himself a cup. The fool. — Darynda Jones

I could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream. — Azar Nafisi

Education is an asset no man can take away. — George Eliot

While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. This city is on the brink of bankruptcy, and yet hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent on this trial. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations. — Assata Shakur

No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same. — Paula Patton

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency. — Richard Lamm

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble. — Kendrick Lamar

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat. — Dorothy Height

Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they're capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn't.
People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact. — Deb Caletti

Don't just get what you need; achieve what you want. — Vikrmn

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes. — John Ridley

You're buying the next one," he said. "The man drinking shouldn't consume more than the man paying. It offends Silf. — Sam Sykes

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his. — Bennett Cerf