Ineffably Defined Quotes & Sayings

All evil seems to arise from the desire to dominate others. Most men in our society are taught from a very early age to try to dominate. It isn't something that they think about consciously. It operates at a subconscious level. They are taught by the adults around them and their peers. Someone dominates them and they in turn try to dominate others. They do it without even realizing it and they do it without even thinking about why. It is without question. In their conscious awareness they may aspire to grandiose ideals but their actions speak for what really motivates them from a subconscious level. — Mark Alberto Yoder Nunez

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment. — Euripides

It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis. — Robert Hughes

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will

In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family. — Peter Diamandis

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up. — Chuck Palahniuk

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know. — Jonah Hill

He said that things could be different in Little Rock, if only the right people could find their voice. I wanted to be on of those people. — Kristin Levine