Georges Bataille Erotism Quotes & Sayings

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers. — Jane Jacobs

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him. — Brian Lumley

The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends. — Donald Trump

Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye. — Marilyn Bergman

Frederick knows better than to believe, as his wife sometimes claims to, that all things happen for a reason. Things happen; it is up to us to invent for them a purpose. — Stefan Merrill Block

I don't really believe that you need to be married to someone to be their life partner. — Lindsey Vonn

Bobos are uncomfortable with universal moral laws that purport to regulate pleasure. Bobos prefer more prosaic self-controlled regimes. The things that are forbidden are unhealthy or unsafe. The things that are encouraged are enriching or calorie burning. In other words, we regulate our carnal desires with health codes instead of moral codes. — David Brooks

May whatever God you believe in have mercy on your soul — Q.J.S. Adiwarna

Eating is the sleeping of being awake. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal. — Neil Postman

Infectious disease is one of the primary mechanisms of natural immunity. Whether we are sick or healthy, disease is always passing through our bodies. "Probably we're diseased all the time," as one biologist puts it, "but we're hardly ever ill." It is only when disease manifests as illness that we see it as unnatural, in the "contrary to the ordinary course of nature" sense of the word. When a child's fingers blacken on his hand from Hib disease, when tetanus locks a child's jaw and stiffens her body, when a baby barks for breath from pertussis, when a child's legs are twisted and shrunken with polio - then disease does not seem natural. — Eula Biss