Joshing Main Quotes & Sayings

Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated. — Tim O'Reilly

I believe that the emergence of postmodernism is closely related to the emergence of this new moment of late, consumer or multinational capitalism. I believe also that its formal features in many ways express the deeper logic of that particular social system. I will only be able, however, to show this for one major theme: namely the disappearance of a sense of history, the way in which our entire contemporary social system has little by little begun to lose its capacity to retain its own past, has begun to live in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve. Think only of the media exhaustion of news: of how Nixon and, even more so, Kennedy are figures from a now distant past. One is tempted to say that the very function of the news media is to relegate such recent historical experiences as rapidly as possible into the past. — Fredric Jameson

I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don't expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die. — William T. Vollmann

There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you're right. — Marc Andreessen

You have to be more prepared than anyone else in the room, even if you aren't planning on speaking up. (Read two articles on a subject every morning and you'll shine - trust me. It's how I make my living.) — Greg Gutfeld

Wise are those who keep asking questions when everyone around them think they know the answers. — J. Bartell

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip. — Christina Stead

I think we all do our own thing and we all have our own talents, but it's good to know that you have a family tree of success so if you need the help on your journey to success then you can look around and see it around you. — Tyga

Complex prevents a person from implementing his potentials — Sunday Adelaja

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier. — Matthew Macfadyen

Everything happens for a reason. Life. Death. Suffering and joy. There is a frightening beauty in all this that I don't want to lose, even if there's pain, too. — Elizabeth Hunter

I won't lie to you. There is always a cost. All I can gurantee is that it will be the right thing."
"It's insane," he says, but without vehemence.
"It's faith," I say. — Rae Carson

If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it. — Rebecca McKinsey

If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach. — Charles Spurgeon

Happy the lover who exercises, then
Goes home to sleep all day with a handsome boy. — Theognis