Filippi Quotes & Sayings

Get your news from six or nine sources and you can usually tell the bullshit from the reality. — Mira Grant

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut? — Jim Butcher

Dreams get shattered, hopes are belied, aspirations delude and opportunities elude us. Clouds have the power to conceal the sunshine and our radiance fails to ignite positive thoughts unless we embellish our thoughts and emotions, which can be trained to veer into a positive direction. — Balroop Singh

I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter the proletariat, excusing them, praising them, adorning them with wreathes. No, oh distinguished windbags, your verve disguises nothing. The "people" is always there, idiotic, cowardly, resigned. And I, who consider myself superior, desire to be so, and both the bourgeoisie and the proletariat will pay for my superiority. — Bruno Filippi

But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much. — N.K. Jemisin

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning. — Karl Kraus

When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation. — Gretchen Rubin

Hey, this is it - right now! - the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff? — Jerry Spinelli

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. — Thomas Jefferson

Things take the time they take.
Don't worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine? — Mary Oliver

Kafka was a realist — Gyorgy Lukacs

I listened to the whine in my voice with a detached fascination. It was a false question. No answer would have pacified me. I had simply given in to a perverse need to ask, to expose and torment myself, and as soon as I heard the words, I experienced both relief and humiliation. — Siri Hustvedt