Bteq Double Quotes & Sayings

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage. — James J. Gibson

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to. — Jessica Brown Findlay

Never look back's a good motto in our line of business. Too many bloody ghosts following. — Jaime Delano

The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake. — Immanuel Wallerstein

We should keep in mind that Revolutions anywhere are always glad to use any help they can get, even from women. But unless women also use the Revolution to further their own interests as well as everyone else's, unless they make it consistently clear that all help given now is expected to be returned, both now and after the Revolution, they will be sold out again and again ... — Shulamith Firestone

To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and ... though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion. — Curtis Sittenfeld