Blivet Bag Quotes & Sayings

[W]ithout changing the most molecular relationships in society - notably, those between men and women, adults and children, whites and other ethnic groups, heterosexuals and gays (the list, in fact, is considerable) - society will be riddled by domination even in a socialistic 'classless' and 'non-exploitative' form. It would be infused by hierarchy even as it celebrated the dubious virtues of 'people's democracies,' 'socialism' and the 'public ownership' of 'natural resources,' And as long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction — Murray Bookchin

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife. — Sydney J. Harris

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. — John Steinbeck

Something comes out of every voyage,' said the other man sharply. 'Out of every bloody fruitless endeavour. All the striving after the unknowable. The unattainable, the search for Athor, the creative force, rolled into a circle. You with your quest; I with my care-ridden Emperor; Sir Thomas, sitting before the fire, his bowels burning before him. We add something. If we didn't add something, there would be no object in it. — Dorothy Dunnett

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. — Terry Pratchett

She was glad she didn't know where it would take her. Because sometimes the only thing that
got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.
[Ehlena] — J.R. Ward

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron

Happiness is not something we can find. Happiness is a state of being. It is a choice we make at any particular moment. It is a feeling we can choose without any reason. — Raphael Zernoff

Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets a lot of strong reactions. A lot of people love it, and a few people truly hate it and pronounce the films are unwatchable because of my Latvian accent. But it also has a certain level of theatricality, and everything is important for a manic character. — Signe Baumane

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone. — Wade Boggs

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Blivet is when a man has a box or a bag that is designed to hold five pounds worth of stuff and he tries to shove ten pounds worth of stuff into it instead. — Rose Gordon

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I am today. — Billy Porter

And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it. — A.A. Milne

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds. — Dick Morris