Dissuasion Quotes & Sayings

This film Phantom takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat. — Stephanie Zacharek

Beautiful and nice; fuck the creators of that little angel. She makes me feel like hell. — Kim Holden

He had written books of a lifetime, on the airs of vast rooms in vast buildings, and had it all fly out the vents. — Ray Bradbury

I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, "You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar". — Ezra Furman

Assume that most times when you feel anxious, depressed, or angry you are not only strongly desiring but also commanding that something go well and that you get what you want. Cherchez le should, cherchez le must! Look for your should, look for your must! Don't give up until you find it. If you have trouble finding it, seek the help of a friend, relative, or REBT therapist who will help you find it. Persist! — Albert Ellis

Dragon fruit is very subtle, very delicate. So you want to be careful not to kill it with things that have very strong flavor. — Jose Andres

If you wake up tired, you've been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen. — Benny Bellamacina

All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie.
She was learning to love. — Lauren Oliver

If you want to master your past at some point in time you'll have to learn forgiveness. — Chris Vonada

If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate. — Marshall Savage

A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses ... : this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ. — Jean Baudrillard

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
— Bernard Meltzer

I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used. — Arabella Weir

The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing. — Marilena Mexi

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company. — Henry Ward Beecher