Dord Quotes & Sayings

If you can understand and believe that you have made choices that took you to a place you don't like, doesn't it make logical sense thatyou can now make choices that will take you to a place you do like?"
... "So now your game becomes one of seeking wisdom and harnessing the power of that wisdom in order to make better choices. — Andy Andrews

...turning someone into a bigot is the first step in turning him into a terrorist. You find someone vulnerable - someone who's lost his confidence, his income, his pride, his agency. Someone who feels humiliated by life. And then you isolate him. You fill him with fear and fury, and you see to it that he regards anybody who's different as a faceless target - a silhouette at a shooting range like Calverton - rather than a human being. But even people who've been raised on hate since birth, people whose minds have been warped and weaponized, can make a choice about who they want to be. And they can be extraordinary advocates for peace, precisely because they've seen the effects of violence, discrimination and disenfranchisement firsthand. People who have been victimized can understand more deeply than anyone how little the world needs more victims. — Zak Ebrahim

Let me go--I'm not wanted--let me take away what's left of me-- — Oliver Onions

He is a pimple on the cock of humanity — Shelly Laurenston

Let's try and create scenes that are about something ... About something deeper than this ashtray. — Martin De Maat

A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust. — Richard Eder

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either. — Mignon McLaughlin

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. — John Fletcher

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. — Vernor Vinge

I tell people, you know, going to the club doesn't make me a bad person, going to church doesn't make you a good one. — Miley Cyrus

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress. — Ma Jian

Where the hell are you going?" says Bolan. "The trunk. Are we ... not putting her in the trunk?" "Why the fuck would we put her in the trunk?" says Mallory. "Well, that's usually where I put unconscious people," says Dord. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Solitary people make the best travellers — Paul Theroux

This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work ... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people. — Peter Drucker