Kantsten Quotes & Sayings

If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it. — Andy Weir

Foreknowledge is power. — Auguste Comte

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity. — William Allen White

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Little by little, the city falls away, like something giving up... — Harriet Lane

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them? — Judith Martin

You don't throw away the love of a lifetime because someone gets injured - that's when you prove what your love's really made of. — Nicole Williams

It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks. — Edith Wharton

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey

I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth. — Nikki Rowe

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw. — Stephen Cambone

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts. — Thomas Jefferson

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life! — Agnes Varda

There are various kinds of propaganda systems. There's the kind that they had in Russia in the old days, which was overt. The government said, here's what you are supposed to believe. Okay, so maybe people would accept it, maybe not, but they had no doubt as to where it was coming from. A sophisticated propaganda system won't do that. It won't state the doctrines you are supposed to believe. It will just presuppose them, so they become like the air you breathe. That's the basis for discussion. Then we have debate within those limits. — Noam Chomsky