Deterred Or Discouraged Quotes & Sayings

Do not covet your ideas. — Paul Arden

And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness. — Cassandra Clare

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements. — Boris Sidis

As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare, which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch.
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The problem, that is to say, is educational. It is a problem of continuously molding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it. The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way. — George Orwell

Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man. — Sabine Baring-Gould

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. — John Updike

Reinforce positive energy. — Keith Grafman

If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm. — David Sedaris

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It was Plato who said: "The movement of sounds so as to reach the soul for the education of it in virtue we know not how, we call music — Zoe Kendrick Pyne