Deep Misanthrope Quotes & Sayings

When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that. — Tavi Gevinson

Knowledge is more than power, it is freedom. — Steven Cuoco

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear. — Ralph Lauren

Cave basilischium! The rex of serpenti, tant pleno of poison that it all shines dehors! Che dicam, il veleno, even the stink comes dehors and kills you! Poisons you ... And it has black spots on his back, and a head like a coq, and half goes erect over the terra, and half on the terra like the other serpents. And it kills the bellula ... '
'The bellula?'
'Oc! Parvissimum animal, just a bit plus longue than the rat, and also called the musk-rat. And so the serpe and the botta. And when they bite it, the bellula runs to the fenicula or to the cicerbita and chews it, and comes back to the battaglia. And they say it generates through the oculi, but most say they are wrong.'
I asked him what he was doing with a basilisk and he said that was his business. — Umberto Eco

All the hate and scorn and love of a deep nature, such as the shy man is ever cursed by, fester and corrupt within, instead of spending themselves abroad, and sour him into a misanthrope and cynic. — Jerome K. Jerome

If the curtain is indeed about to drop on Sapiens history, — Yuval Noah Harari

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s. — Emilie De Ravin

In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government. — Monica Crowley

Some believe in the merits of the enterprise and devote their careers to ever greater nosological precision. Others, and among them I include myself, marvel that anyone can take diagnosis seriously, that it can ever be considered more than a simple cluster of symptoms and behavioral traits. Nonetheless, we find ourselves under ever-increasing pressure (from hospitals, insurance companies, governmental agencies) to sum up a person with a diagnostic phrase and a numerical category. Even — Irvin D. Yalom

John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism.
Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health. — Paul Cornell

Dream big and your problems become small. — Vishen Lakhiani

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds. — Max McKeown

I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth. — Narendra Modi