Despotically Def Quotes & Sayings

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture. — Al Gore

So much American science fiction is parochial
not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way ... — Poul Anderson

I lead an introverted and boring life here in California. — Brian Bosworth

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune. — Jim Rohn

What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act
not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself? — Judith Warner

The song which thrills to heaven, and seeks to emulate seraphic strains, hath human discords in it. The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a bruised and battered prayer — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him. — Megan Hart

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible. — Franz Kafka

They k set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which — Anonymous

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light. — Karen Marie Moning

The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history. — L.M. Montgomery

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld