Fishbeck Thompson Quotes & Sayings

Not only should the Indonesian people believe in God, but every Indonesian should believe in his own God. — Sukarno

Habit enables us to cling to the familiar, to the self we think we know with a persistence almost irresistible. An anodyne for the terror of the unknown, it effectively keeps us from knowing, and is fatal in itself. Habit is a fiction the organism requires to dim perception. It screens us from the world, and from the true world of the self. Habit - no matter how intense the suffering it causes - is the last thing the personality will give up. It is arming itself against danger. The weapons may be more painful to use than the pain they seek to deflect. No matter. Habit allows us to live - by which Proust means it allows us to exist while it simultaneously compels us to miss Life. — Howard Moss

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value — Charles Dickens

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people. — Marjane Satrapi

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing. — Vince Vaughn

To mend any relationship, you need to first accept it needs to be fixed, and comprehend that the fault often time lies within, what you see in the other is merely a reflection of it. — Rayna Dee

Sometimes weakness wore the face of strength, and sometimes strength wore the face of weakness. — Roshani Chokshi

Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why were the Aztecs and Incas patriarchal? It is far more likely that even though the precise definition of man and woman varies between cultures, there is some universal biological reason why almost all cultures valued manhood over womanhood. We do not know what this reason is; there are plenty of theories, none of the convincing. — Yuval Noah Harari

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all. — Albert Camus

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day. — Mark Zuckerberg

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen. — Method Man