Karl Marx Modernity Quotes & Sayings

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. — Melvin Maddocks

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory! — Colleen Atwood

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test. — Michael Moore

I know that a lot of songwriters write about a break up. It's a really popular topic. I think heartbreak is the number one thing people write about. I could say that's narcissistic somehow because they want everybody to admire how pained they are. But I actually do think there's something beautiful and uplifting about knowing that you're not the only one who is experiencing or has experienced that kind of devastating loss. Everyone's experienced that. — Mirah

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does. — Jonathan Carroll

Well, why didn't you list that among our assets in the first place? — William Goldman

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath. — John Roberts

You have got to give children respect from the earliest stage. You should be proud of whatever you do. If you're not, you really shouldn't be doing it at all. — Jade Jagger

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else. — John Wooden

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient. — Sadie Frost

I still meet old-school scientists who are like, 'Oh honey, women aren't good at science.' You kind of dismiss them as insane. — Anne Wojcicki

It's better to be a dictator than gay. — Alexander Lukashenko

Making love was a game of echoes. We had shared memories so many times that when I made love to her, I knew exactly how it felt to be Purslane. I could taste and feel her other lovers and she could taste and feel mine, each experience reaching away like a reflection in a hall of mirrors, diminishing into a kind of carnal background radiation, a sea of sensuous experience. I had been a girl once, then a thousand men and women and all their lovers. The stasis field locked on. The Synchromesh took hold. I hurtled into my own future, while my ship ate space and time.

- "House of Suns" by Alastair Reynolds — Alastair Reynolds

There is no point in lingering on the fallacies of the revolutionaries of unrepression; one could go on and on, but everything would come back to the same basic thing: the impossibility of living without repression. — Ernest Becker