Depictions Synonym Quotes & Sayings

In Rikers, you had the Italians over here, the Spanish over here, the Blacks here, then there would be your Christians here and your Muslim brotherhood here. It's just like the outside, but in very closed quarters where you have to get along or else. The sense of claustrophobia in 'Orange is the New Black' - that's real. — Sharon Jones

Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact
come to know anything. — Thomas Merton

Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama! — Dalai Lama

All honor to those who can abnegate for themselves the personal enjoyment of life, when by such renunciation they contribute worthily to increase the amount of happiness in the world; but he who does it, or professes to do it, for any other purpose, is no more deserving of admiration than the ascetic mounted on his pillar. — John Stuart Mill

My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days. — Michael Moore

I was drunk, pretty sure this wouldn't be happening if I was sober. — Khali Raymond

Every once in a while, an up-or-down-leg goes on for a long time and/or to a great extreme and people start to say "this time it's different." They cite the changes in geopolitics, institutions, technology or behaviour that have rendered the "old rules" obsolete. They make investment decisions that extrapolate the recent trend. And then it turns out that the old rules still apply and the cycle resumes. In the end, trees don't grow to the sky, and few things go to zero. — Howard Marks

The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny. — Nancy Pearcey

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table. — Miguel De Cervantes

One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy. — Josephine Tey

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. — Hannah Arendt

I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but maybe if he does the right thing, a little less harm will come about than if he chooses wrong. God preserve me from having to make that sort of choice. — Philip Pullman

Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you're meant to light up in the world. — Vironika Tugaleva

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. — Dan Savage