Bulgrins Quotes & Sayings

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings. — Willard Van Orman Quine

The past is every second of your life up until now. Up until NOW. See how quickly the present is gobbled up by the past?
The present is ... Sorry, it's already gone. Hmm, it was just there a minute ago. — Evan Kuhlman

The spirit he has shown has been second to none.
(on Terry Fenwick's drunk-driving charge) — Terry Venables

If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don't have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don't. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state. — David Graeber

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

You are a product of the choices you make. — Randy Haveson

The self. What is the self? Everything you are, without others, without friends or strangers or lovers or children or streets to walk or food to eat or mirrors in which to see yourself. But are you anyone without others? — Don DeLillo