Hudsonian Quotes & Sayings

So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with the bosses. For the rest, deafen the whole world with senseless clamour. Mechanize everything! Give nobody a chance to think. Standardize "amusement." The louder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din and the next can be filled with appeals, repeated 'till hypnotic power gives them the force of orders, to buy this or that product of the "Business men" who are the real power in the State. Men who betray their country as obvious routine.
The history of the past thirty years is eloquent enough, one would think. What these sodden imbeciles never realize is that a living organism must adapt itself intelligently to its environment, or go under at the first serious change of circumstance. — Aleister Crowley

Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right. — Yolanda Adams

It's funny how even when the sky falls around us, people still have to make pancakes — Rachel DeWoskin

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that. — Sharon Stone

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Don't be stuck in a storm. Be the storm. Godspeed, — Vlad Zachary

He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the god damn boat, he'd want to know who the guy that was rowing it before he'd even get in. — J.D. Salinger

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money. — Stephen Ambrose

You might have thought that bird watching would be recognized as the most harmless, inoffensive, innocent of pastimes, and yet .... There was the time I was brought out of my reverie by a police officer who clearly thought I was loitering with criminal intent. When I responded "It's a Hudsonian Godwit!" he revised his assessment from "hardened criminal" to "dangerous loony". Fortunately my wife intervened, and he came to accept that I was in fact a harmless loony who could be safely left in her care. — Clive Keen

What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation? — Carol S. Dweck

Although I could hear the echo of my footsteps, I could have sworn I was walking a few centimeters above the ground — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. — Paul Cezanne

Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses. — Marshall McLuhan

The pinnacle of power in China is the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, the tiny body that sets policy for the nation's 1.4 billion citizens. — Tom Clancy

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis. — Benjamin Netanyahu