Drinktru Quotes & Sayings

Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses. — Sigmund Freud

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity. — Pope Francis

My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same. Just as he would have to learn to be an adult in the world, so would I have to learn to live without him. — Sallyann Murphey

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. 'Corporation' is just the most recent name for it. — Daniel Suarez

They proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others. — Emile M. Cioran

Wesley: To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists. Next your nose. The next thing you will lose will be your left eye followed by your right.
Prince Humperdink: And then my ears, I understand let's get on with it.
Wesley: WRONG. Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever. — William Goldman

Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about Winning and losing. — Matt Biondi

Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation. — Olof Arnalds

The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate to single particles, and who cannot repeat their experiments often enough to obtain any but the most probable results. — J. Willard Gibbs

I was famous for not being like everybody else. I loved it. — Avi

We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed. — Tug McGraw

Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements of science insofar as it permits a division of the world into subject and object (observer and observed) and, hence, a clear formulation of the law of causality. — Werner Heisenberg