Diffidently Def Quotes & Sayings

Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good. — John Avery

I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are kind of at the sharp end of capitalism one way or another. Mainly because they buy everything. In a practical sense, women buy most things. They're always comparing - to friends, to famous people, to other people. An obsessive act of comparison. — Zadie Smith

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues. — Henry David Thoreau

This exquisite state of unconcerned immersion in oneself is not, unfortunately, of long duration. It is liable to be disturbed from inside. As though sprung from nowhere, moods, feelings, desires, worries and even thoughts incontinently rise up, in a meaningless jumble ... The only successful way of rendering this disturbance inoperative is to keep on breathing quietly and unconcernedly, to enter into friendly relations with whatever appears on the scene, to accustom oneself to it, to look at it equably and at last grow weary of looking. — Eugen Herrigel

Focus not on who you are, but on what you can do for others. — Ron Kaufman

It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic security are those that have been domesticated
and the economic security they have is controlled by the barbed-wire fence, the butcher's knife and the desire of others. They are milked, skinned, egged or eaten up by their protectors. — Ray Lyman Wilbur

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time. — Pedro Almodovar

Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy! — Orson Scott Card

Don't care about *new* mistakes you are going to make, take care that you don't just repeat older ones. — Prerak Trivedi

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of. — Tommy Franks

Reason gives expression to the laws of inevitability. Consciousness gives expression to the essence of freedom. — Leo Tolstoy

Crying doesn't make you weak. There's sixteen years of tears in that body of yours, and you have to let some of it go. — Sahana Epari

We're all of us prospectors up here, eh, Tyler? Scratchin' for that... that one crack in the ground. Never have to scratch again. I'll let you in on a little secret, Tyler: the gold's not in the ground. The gold's not anywhere up here. The real gold is south of 60 - sittin' in livin' rooms, stuck facin' the boob tube, bored to death. Bored to death, Tyler...Boredom - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure. — Curtis Hanson

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. — Louis Auchincloss