Descendent Song Quotes & Sayings

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things. — Joseph Epstein

One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know how much you needed to know. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. — Eric Hoffer

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. — Walter Bagehot

If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether. — Wilford Woodruff

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole. — Joseph Goebbels

If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down. — George Foreman

Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise
They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie — Wale

When his brother Robb burst into the room, breathless from his dash up the tower steps, the direwolf was licking Bran's face. Bran looked up calmly. "His name is Summer," he said. — George R R Martin

Patience," he said, his eyes intent on his project.
"Patience is no' a virtue I have, Dash. I'm very sorry ta tell ye, but ye would have found out soon enough anyway. — Lydia Dare

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well. — David Hare