Kerboeuf Hurdy Quotes & Sayings

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. — Saint Augustine

We are built to be dupes for theories. But theories come and go; experience stays. Explanations — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there. I don't think these writers are being terse out of choice. I think they are being terse because it's the only way they can write. — Martin Amis

Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by. — Garry Kasparov

When you understand what you're truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one. — Toni Sorenson

The days were a gray fog. Faces, familiar and unfamiliar, badgered him for directions, to which his reply was an invariable, laconic, "Suit yourself." Elena would not talk to him at all. He was stirred to fear she was finding comfort in Baz's arms. He watched her covertly, anxious. But she seemed not to be finding comfort anywhere. After — Lois McMaster Bujold

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise. — Bertrand Russell

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa. — Janina Gavankar

If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up. — Richard Selzer

It was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture. — Mary McCarthy

In the NFL, you know how people love going to fancy restaurants? I am not a fancy-restaurant guy. I am a good-tasting steak-and-potatoes guy. — Tim Tebow

It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case. Algernon. Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Jack. I am quite aware of the fact, and I don't propose to discuss modern culture. It isn't the sort of thing one should talk of in private. — Oscar Wilde

Without free speech one cannot claim other liberties, or defend them when they are attacked. Without free speech one cannot have a democratic process, which requires the statement and testing of policy proposals and party platforms. Without free speech one cannot have a due process at law, in which one can defend oneself, accuse, collect and examine evidence, make a case or refute one. Without free speech there cannot be genuine education and research, enquiry, debate, exchange of information, challenges to falsehood, questioning of governments, proposal and examination of opinion. Without free speech there cannot be a free press, which...is necessary...as one of the two essential estates of a free society (the other being an independent judiciary). — A.C. Grayling

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love. — William Maxwell