Justificatory Quotes & Sayings

There's something presumptuous in writing an autobiography, as if people's interest in your life is a given. — Simon Pegg

The main thing we were made for is to work with others. — Marcus Aurelius

Imagine a being like nature, wasteful beyond measure, indifferent beyond measure, without mercy and justice, fertile and desolate and uncertain at the same time; imagine indifference itself as a power, how could you live according to this indifference? Living, is that not precisely wanting to be different? And supposing your imperative 'live according to nature' meant at bottom as much as 'live according to life', how could you not do that? Why make a principle of what you yourselves are and must be? — Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things. — Paul Gilding

Saint-Just read for the next two hours his report on the plots of the Dantonist faction. He had imagined, when he wrote it, that he had the accused man before him; he had not amended it. If Danton were really before him, this reading would be punctuated by the roars of his supporters from the galleries, by his own self-justificatory roaring; but Saint-Just addressed the air, and there was a silence, which deepened and fed on itself. He read without passion, almost without inflection, his eyes on the papers that he held in his left hand. Occasionally he would raise his right arm, then let it fall limply by his side: this was his only gesture, a staid, mechanical one. Once, towards the end, he raised his young face to his audience and spoke directly to them: "After this," he promised, "there will be only patriots left. — Hilary Mantel

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality. — Brother Lawrence

Pyotr was the arcane hero, complete with buff body that you secretly whacked off to as a boy. And suddenly he turned and stared straight at him, some carnal fire burning in his eyes now. Pyotr walked for him slow and cautious like he was fighting his own control just then. Cliff could only gape and his eyes followed Pyotr's hand as it reached out to clap his shoulder then moved him firmly for the car. — Talon P.S.

I speak up when it's needed. — Torrey Smith

Most of the time I manage to forget to be afraid. But sometimes I think, 'This could be is,' and I move forward anyway. — David Levithan

Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Let go. — Sue Morter

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat. — Max Cleland