Dostuff Quotes & Sayings

Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair. — Alice Dreger

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be. — Michelle Kwan

Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest. — Thomas Beecham

If people treat you like shit, you treat them like shit right back. They won't like it, but they'll respect it. It's a lonely road. Although, truth be told, I enjoyed being alone. Life was much clearer. — Tijan

We are not separate from spirit, we are within it." -Plotinus, ancient Greek Sage & Mystic — Sara Rider

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. — Hilary Mantel

There was another world below - this was the problem. Another world below that had volume but no form. By day the sea was blue surface and whitecaps, a realistic navigational challenge, and the problem could be overlooked. By night, though, the mind went forth and dove down through the yielding - the violently lonely - nothingness on which the heavy steel ship traveled, and in every moving swell you saw a travesty of grids, you saw how truly and forever lost a man would be six fathoms under. Dry land lacked this z-axis. Dry land was like being awake. Even in chartless desert you could drop to your knees and pound land with your fist and land didn't give. Of course the ocean, too, had a skin of wakefulness. But every point on this skin was a point where you could sink and by sinking disappear. — Jonathan Franzen

Life is life. We don't get to choose how it goes, we just deal with it. — Bella Jewel

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? — C.S. Lewis