Exformation Point Quotes & Sayings

A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness. — Edward Gibbon

My rear end was blood-raw from my so called brilliant ideas rebounding on me. — Malorie Blackman

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth. — James Stewart

[ ... ]we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God, whether we have not rather been confessing our sins to ourselves and also granting ourselves absolution. And is not the reason perhaps for our countless relapses and the feebleness of our Christian obedience to be found precisely in the fact that we are living on self-forgiveness and not a real forgiveness. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good. — Adolf Hitler

What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem and enumerated all of the dissastisfactions in your life? He would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don't like having choices made for you, you should start making your own. — Neal Stephenson

I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling. — Julianne Moore

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it. — Marjane Satrapi

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught. — Judah Friedlander

I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people. — Keira Knightley