Quotes & Sayings About Government Control In Brave New World

People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be! — Mary Stewart

Life is just as deadly as it looks, but fiction is more forgiving. — Richard Thompson

She trusted him? She'd barely met him. Women. Thank God I've never wanted to date one. — J.L. Merrow

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. — Uri Geller

The Western Church did not come to the barbarians with a civilizing mission or any conscious hopes of social progress, but with a tremendous message of divine judgment and divine salvation. Humanity was born under a curse, enslaved by the dark powers of cosmic evil and sinking ever deeper under the burden of its own guilt. Only by the way of the Cross and by the grace of the crucified Redeemer was it possible for men to extricate themselves from the massa damnata of unregenerate humanity and escape from the wreckage of a doomed world. — Christopher Henry Dawson

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live. — Craig Newmark

No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary) But it doesn't feel temporary. (Arik) It never does at its onset. It's only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Now if I was aping men, she'd have every right to be disgusted. As far as I was concerned, men were something you had around the place ... not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. — Jeanette Winterson

One question keeps troubling me: Why? ... The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know. — Don Piper

There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston. — Terry Francona

Speaking of the capitulation of Bulgaria, an event decisive to the outcome of the First World War and therefore to the end of a civilisation, Count Karolyi writes that while he was living through it he did not realise its importance, because "at that moment, 'that moment' had not yet become 'that moment'". The same is true in fiction for Fabrizio del Dongo, concerning the battle of Waterloo: while he is fighting it, it does not exist. In the pure present, the only dimension, however, in which we live, there is no history. At no single instant is there such a thing as the Fascist period or the October revolution, because in that fraction of a second there is only the mouth swallowing saliva, the movement of a hand, a glance at the window. — Claudio Magris

What makes God real for anyone is faith. — Crystal McVea

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. — E. M. Forster

However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. — Nikolai Gogol

We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences. — David Levithan