Quotes & Sayings About Frankenstein Leaving The Monster

There exists [a] word in German, Geschichte, which designates not accomplished history, but history in the present, doubtless determined in large part, yet only in part, by the already accomplished past; for a history which is present, which is living, is also open to a future that is uncertain, unforeseeable, not yet accomplished, and therefore aleatory. Living history obeys only a constant (not a law): the constant of class struggle. Marx did not use the term 'constant', which I have taken from Levi-Strauss, but an expression of genius: 'tendential law', capable of inflecting (but not contradicting) the primary tendential law, which means that a tendency does not possess the form or figure of linear law, but that it can bifurcate under the impact of an encounter with another tendency, and so on ad infinitum. At each intersection the tendency can take a path that is unforeseeable because it is aleatory. — Louis Althusser

Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Communists are steadily pushing the free world into a corner. — Robert Kennedy

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in. — Terry Pratchett

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. — Daniel Defoe

You will find out that I'm not like them. I won't punish your for having an accident, and I won't punish you when you do something wrong, or something I don't like. I don't hit, darlin'. — Karen-Anne Stewart

We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement. — Christina Ricci

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character. — Zachary Levi

I hope the string and clapper arrangement he calls a mind has been permanently put out of action. — Dorothy Dunnett