Dysgenic Pressure Quotes & Sayings

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist. — Walter Moers

It looms before us, an impenetrable wall, trying to crush us, but not yet able to. — Anne Frank

If he was a member of the human race at all, Neumann was its least attractive specimen. His eyebrows, twitching and curling like two poisoned caterpillars, were joined together by an irregular scribble of poorly matched hair. Behind thick glasses that were almost opaque with greasy thumbprints, his grey eyes were shifty and nervous, searching the floor as if he expected that at any moment he would be lying flat on it. Cigarette smoke poured out from between teeth that were so badly stained with tobacco they looked like two wooden fences. — Philip Kerr

It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society. — Rodney Brooks

You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now. — Chang-rae Lee

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it. — Sinclair Lewis

Like all other modern people, the English are in process of being numbered, labelled, conscripted, 'coordinated'. But the pull of their impulses is in the other direction, — George Orwell

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. — James Dobson

To be a striker you need to be in good shape. — Pele

Why did I revive that old word? Because with the notion of habitus you can refer to something that is close to what is suggested by the idea of habit, while differing from it in one important respect. The habitus, as the word implies, is that which one has acquired, but which has become durably incorporated in the body in the form of permanent dispositions. So the term constantly reminds us that it refers to something historical, linked to individual history, and that it belongs to a genetic mode of thought, as opposed to essentialist modes of thought (like the notion of competence which is part of the Chomskian lexis). Moreover, by habitus the Scholastics also meant something like a property, a capital. And indeed, the habitus is a capital, but one which, because it is embodied, appears as innate. — Pierre Bourdieu

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. — Michel De Montaigne

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it. — Debasish Mridha

I often say that it's only people who have their skin in the business who'll work towards its success. — Subhash Chandra

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie. — Walter Matthau

A belt don't make me. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.