Defame My Character Quotes & Sayings

In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while. — Willie Geist

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it. — J.D. Salinger

Anxiety, says Kierkegaard, is the dizziness of freedom. — Neel Burton

Pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet. — Marilynne Robinson

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside — George Orwell

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. — E.W. Howe

You can't really innovate for the past (your offering won't be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present. — Braden Kelley

In the Orwellian dystopia the original sin was thoughtcrime, but in our new corporate dystopia the secret inner crime is need, particularly financial need. People in America hide financial need like they hide sexual perversions.

Why? Because there's a direct correlation between need and rights. The more you need, the more you owe, the fewer rights you have.

Conversely, the less you need, the more you have, the more of a free citizen you get to be. On the extreme ends of this spectrum it is literally a crime to be poor, while a person with enough money literally cannot be prosecuted for certain kinds of crimes. — Matt Taibbi

Sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news. — Ricky Williams

She turned the doorknob and pushed - but the door wouldn't budge. 'Lillian? Lillian, don't tell me this door is bolted!'
'That's fine,' I answered in as light a tone as I could manage while frantically unbuttoning Uncle Bufford's
waistcoat. 'I won't tell you, I promise.'
'Don't get smart with me, young lady! Is
this door bolted?'
'You just asked me not to tell you that. So I can't, even though technically it actually might be true.'
'Lillian! — Robert Thier

Most people would say 'the deets', but I say 'the tails'. Just another example of innovation. — Aziz Ansari

If we are not careful, it is all too easy to fall into becoming more of a human doing than a human being, and forget who is doing all the doing, and why. — Jon Kabat-Zinn