Commodify Your Dissent Quotes & Sayings

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. — Annie Dillard

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control. — Sarah Snook

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me. — Amber Heard

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best. — Bertrand Russell

What made us dream that he could comb gray hair? — William Butler Yeats

The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it's worse than zero, because it represents territory you're afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you'll abandon your book. — Timothy Hallinan

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James Baldwin

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. — Henry David Thoreau

I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences. — Ashley Madekwe

He looked at her for a moment, amazed. "How did you know that? How can a servant girl like you understand so much?"
Because self-absorbed man-children are common as weeds, thought Mary. But she said, "I don't know, sir. I only guessed. — Y.S. Lee

Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity. — Nick Offerman

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want. — Joan Collins

Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of talk at crowded cocktail parties; snatches of poems heard as a radio dial spins through its arc; incomplete commandments reclaimed from shattered stones. — Dexter Palmer

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites. — Diane Watson

Some sins may help you to remember Allah while some blessings may cause you to forget Him — Boonaa Mohammed