Disceptic Quotes & Sayings

It takes time. There are milestones, but so many people are traveling along that road at their own pace, and some come along later, and others are trying to stop everyone who's moving forward, and a few are marching backward or are confused about what direction they should go in. Even in our own lives we regress, fail, continue, try again, get lost, and sometimes make a great leap, find what we didn't know we were looking for, and yet continue to contain contradictions for generations. (Pandora's Box and the Volunteer Police Force) — Rebecca Solnit

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy. — Juice Newton

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures ... — John Owen

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false. — Robert Walpole

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women. — Helen Mirren

Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood. — Haruki Murakami

Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future — Amitav Ghosh

The gods did not desire flawless souls, but great ones. I think that very darkness is where the greatness grows from, as flowers from the soil. I am not sure, in fact, if greatness can bloom without it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day? — Stephen Colbert

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head. — Jim Hightower

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice. — Eva Green

Who was the real Adrian? The oddly charming man who'd asked me for a date right after he kidnapped me? The heroic one who'd saved my life two times in four days? Or the surly one who acted like I was a venereal disease he couldn't wait to be cured of? — Jeaniene Frost

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone. — Richard Ayoade

When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him. — Chris Matthews