Deslice Quotes & Sayings

Our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential responses so narrow, that the only thing anyone can think to do with an inappropriate shamer like Adria is to punish her with a shaming. All of the shamers had themselves come from a place of shame, and it really felt parochial and self-defeating to instinctively slap shame onto shame like a clumsy builder covering cracks. — Jon Ronson

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats. — Max Brooks

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. — Terence McKenna

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. — Peter L. Berger

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. — Albert Schweitzer

Nothing is the truer than the Truth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied. — Adeline Yen Mah

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people. — Tristram Stuart

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. — Ursula K. Le Guin

At conception, we start as a single cell that contains all the DNA needed to build our body. The plan for that entire body unfolds via the instructions contained in this single microscopic cell. To go from this generalized egg cell to a complete human, with trillions of specialized cells organized in just the right way, whole batteries of genes need to be turned on and off at just the right stages of development. Like a concerto composed of individual notes played by many instruments, our bodies are a composition of individual genes turning on and off inside each cell during our development. — Neil Shubin

I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options. — Glenn Hoddle

I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much. — Cinda Williams Chima

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange. — Andrew Solomon