Completist Publications Quotes & Sayings

What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves. — John Naughton

you can't always have what you want, and sometimes you're better off without it. — Len Levinson

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow. — Karl Shapiro

When it comes right down to it, this story is not primarily about spies and secret government agencies; it's about violence against women, and the men who enable it. — Stieg Larsson

Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road. — Marcus Aurelius

Are you telling me that even though it's changing every second, the sky is always a perfect sky? — Richard Bach

In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up. — Drew Holcomb

("Shoot him in the foot," Mr. Persichetti would tell Mr. Keane, years later, when Tony had already returned from the war and Jacob had drawn a bad number. "Break his legs before you let him go.") — Alice McDermott

We have far too many ways to interpret past events for our own good. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms. — Gary Valentine