Familistere Quotes & Sayings

Lorsen shook his head in amazement. 'You truly are disgusting.'
'I would be the last to disagree, but you fail to see that you are worse. No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself in the right. No purpose more evil than the higher purpose. I freely admit I am a villain. That's why you hired me. But I am no hypocrite. — Joe Abercrombie

You have made me smile again; in fact I may be sore from it- it's been awhile. — Ben Folds

The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists. — Kristin Gore

The law for religious freedom ... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson

My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older. — George Sarton

We're all moving to a world where the forces of nature come closer together to technology. — Shilo Shiv Suleman

I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves. — Sandra Bullock

I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue. — Johnny Cash

Voluntary memory, the memory of the intellect and the eyes, [gives] us only imprecise facsimiles of the past which no more resemble it than pictures by bad painters resemble the spring. ... So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it, but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated, and similarly we think we no longer love the dead, because we don't remember them, but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears. A — Alain De Botton