Gebruik Van Quotes & Sayings

Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize. — Mike Dooley

Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph Campbell. Because we all take archetypal journeys in a million ways - literal, symbolic, you name it - that figure, disfigure, and refigure violence. — Lidia Yuknavitch

It is the political task of the social scientist - as of any liberal educator - continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work - and, as an educator, in his life as well - this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society. — C. Wright Mills

If you can't beat them. Join them — Jim Henson

It is when death is rendered graphically, is televised so to speak, that you sense an eerie separation between your condition and yourself. A network of symbols has been introduced, an entire awesome technology wrested from the gods. It makes you feel like a stranger in your own dying. — Don DeLillo

You don't want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore. — Amy Landecker

I found myself often asking the question, "Who deserves to be made fun of?" Depending on your mood, the answer can be no one or everyone. It took me a while to understand the math of how those field pieces came together. I don't think that ridicule is ever funny, but there are times when that gets the biggest response. — Ed Helms

Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you had to grow up with rats scampering in your backyard, because the city services were cut in half and the population in your neighborhood doubled, then that also is going to mean that the flora and fauna are going to grow as well. So that's a part of it. That's why I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. — Sandra Cisneros

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. — Aristotle.

The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade. — Jean Cocteau

say. "No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his." Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves — Suzanne Collins

There could be no ghosts upon a world that had never known life. — Arthur C. Clarke

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. — Steve Martin

If you can determine exactly who are you being when you ascribe every good thing that happens in your life-ecosystem to luck, chance, coincidence, or the will of a divine power, and every unfortunate moment, unsuccessful attempt and perceived failure entirely to yourself, you will have the answer to every question that matters. — Ari Stathopoulos