Concessional Ticket Quotes & Sayings

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors. — Noam Chomsky

Even if what you said was true, that only makes it worse. Truth should be left in wrapped boxes for people to open when they're ready. When it's used as a blade, they vacuum-seal the pain somewhere deep inside, sealing the truth in with it, until it's time to turn it inside out and cut someone else. I — Mishell Baker

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsmen who cannot read at all, and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. — Henry David Thoreau

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more! — Saul Bellow

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken — Agatha Christie

An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience. — Eleanor Brownn

Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it? — Herman Melville

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. — Paul Theroux