Fierce Conversations Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead. — Girl234

I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people. — Christopher Hitchens

That sounds really interesting. I'm working on A, B, and C right now. Which should I set aside in order to focus on this project? — Kate White

Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity. — Judith Butler

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist. — Mike Birbiglia

I lied to you about a lot of things ... but I meant every apology. — Marissa Meyer

Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them. — Renata Adler

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? — George Carlin

In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes. — Dean Koontz

We're always making everything slightly more difficult than it needs to be, aren't we?
Oh, us ... — Sara Bareilles

Revolution? You're an idiot. You don't even know what that word means. Forget your precious Mao and Che and Fidel. If they've appeared on a T-shirt, they haven't changed shit. You want revolution, look at Alexander Fleming. Penicillin transformed the world in ways Lenin and Washington only dreamt of. Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It's adult swim. — Marcus Sakey

What we found in our conversations with these superachievers was that success di not come to them in the thunderclap of their Eureka! moments. Talent was just the beginning. Their sustained success depended on many factors -some in their control, and some not- but the first steps of these superachievers were to know themselves and to assess what they had to work with. Then, their progress toward their goals was furthered by their fierce dedication to the day-to-day struggle for achievement. — Camille Sweeney

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically. — Andrei Codrescu

Never waste a good crisis. — Hillary Clinton

Velayudhan Nair says: 'Man, we go to the doctor.' Velayudhan Nair always began every sentence with Man, for he had been to Bombay. In Colaba every De Souza says: Man. This they learned from the P & O ships. And P & O ships touch Plymouth. Do they say 'Man' there, one wonders.

'So, man, we go to the doctor,' he repeated.

'Mr Man, I come,' said Govindan Nair. He sometimes used Mister to show he too could be elegant. He called his son Mr Shridhar. ('Mr Shridhar, go and get me a chew,' 'Mr Shridhar, the thing that father puffs is wanted,' etc. etc. Mr Shridhar therefore brought the chew tobacco or that which father puffs, according to orders.) — Raja Rao