Degeneriaceae Quotes & Sayings

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law. — Thomas Jefferson

If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England. — Lewis Gordon

What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient. — Tony Kushner

Holding on to the past means you can never be open to having a future — Laurann Dohner

But it would be wrong to say you were unhappy there, for you had no trouble adjusting to your reduced circumstances, you found it invigorating to learn that you could get by on almost nothing, and as long as you were able to write, it made no difference where or how you lived. — Paul Auster

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all. — Jamie Redknapp

Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before. — W. H. Auden

The organizational fit is the good balance of the fitting attitude and misfit thinking. — Pearl Zhu

Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed. — Robert Galbraith

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan. — Steven Brust

Don't tell me, don't promise me, surprise me! — Nadina Boun

You try moving things with nothing but willpower. It's about as easy as trying to lasso a bull with a licorice whip."
- from "Phantom's Veil — Richelle E. Goodrich

Good and quiet do not connote weakness. — Ogwo David Emenike

Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations. — Lee Siegel