Bongaarts Proximate Quotes & Sayings

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire

Stop wasting your time with people who don't value your help or who you are. They take with one hand & disrespect you with the other. Move on with your life. — Timothy Pina

Lady Macduff: Now God help thee, poor monkey! But
how wilt thou do for a father?

Son: If he were dead, you'd weep for him. If you would
not, it were a good sign that I should quickly have a
new father. — William Shakespeare

Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price. — Richard Bach

An overburdened liver sounds different from a healthy one. An overburdened liver groans. It groans and begs. It begs for a day off. A day to deal with the worst of the garbage. — Herman Koch

I don't like it when a girl trys to hard and puts loads of makeup on. You gotta show some of yourself. — Justin Bieber

I've heard walking down a busy sidewalk in New York is like swimming in a sea of people. I love to swim and I love people, so of course I would love New York! - — Lisa Schroeder

By tracing in this manner every word to its original, and not admitting, but with great caution, any of which no original can be found, we shall secure our language from being overrun with cant, from being crowded with low terms, the spawn of folly or affectation, which arise from no just principles of speech, and of which, therefore, no legitimate derivation can be shown. — Samuel Johnson

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing. — Andrew Hill

We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished. — Niecy Nash

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross

You're not a fucking backup plan, Cami! Why are you letting someone treat you like one? — Jamie McGuire

God, he looked good. Up close, from a distance, it didn't matter. The boy didn't have a bad side. — Linda Kage

I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30. — Martin Millar