Caino Abele Quotes & Sayings

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another — Alan Bennett

Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. Keep — Anonymous

I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition." — Junot Diaz

The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews. — Richard Dawkins

If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could. — Tom Stoppard

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent. — Michel De Montaigne

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know - not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that's kind of different from the information you put in your profile. — Mark Zuckerberg

I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Truth is relative, then. It is about timing. It is about what is safe. Truth is the luxury of the privileged, of people who have plenty of food and are not forced to hide because they are Jews. Truth can destroy, and therefore it is not always wise or even healthy to be truthful. — Patricia Cornwell

When I see Lemlem walking around New York City, it's just mind-boggling, because I know it came from this one man sitting and weaving this little product. — Liya Kebede

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. — Richard Stallman

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. — Blaise Pascal

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place. — Ridley Scott

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one. — Billy Crudup

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness. — Shay Carl