Defeatist Words Quotes & Sayings

Are you absolutely sure there are no absolutes? — Patrick Friar

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists. — Louis D. Brandeis

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children — Edward O. Wilson

The power to command frequently causes failure to think. — Barbara Tuchman

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. — Thomas Carlyle

Better beware of the newly dead

Of the white-handed ghost

And the brightness of these lamps . . .

wrote Luc Berimont in 1940, in Reign of Darkness.

I've always felt the greatest reluctance to go anywhere near, to touch, a fresh corpse. For me, it's an unseemly thing. Useless. Hostile. Cunning. Dangerous. The 'presence' is much stronger, more perceptible one hour after death than one hour before. By my observation, this was not the case with Heisserer.

He was entirely absent from his head, his hands,his quivering body. He was gone instantly, unburdened of his absurd life, released. — Jacques Yonnet

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children. — Robert K. Massie

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern. — Mohammed Morsi

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain. — Fred Durst

There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God. — J. Oswald Sanders

I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me. — Dean Koontz

I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control. — Steven Wright

My say is this: when you live in a worldwide bullring, bullshit is what you'll get. If they say I cannot be my mother's son, then it must be that I'm her daughter. — A. Igoni Barrett

Actually getting closer to a metaphorical truth? Or metaphorically getting closer to an actual truth? — Haruki Murakami