Kurt Vonnegut Cats Cradle Quotes & Sayings

I wish emotional bruises healed like physical ones. — Susane Colasanti

From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance. — Charles Tilly

Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know. — Daniel Abraham

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that. — Susanne Bier

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong. — Bryan Adams

Do not waste my words on tired minds.
I can only talk to those who are thirsty
for the sea. — Rumi

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all things good and all things beautiful to give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agent to bring the fullest night to all the world. — Ann Voskamp

If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man. — Joshua Jackson

The map they are using does not indicate the village of Orce, how very inconsiderate on the part of the cartographers, I'll bet they didn't forget to indicate their own hometowns, in future they should remember how vexing it is for someone to check out his birthplace on a map only to find a blank space, this has given rise to the gravest of problems for those trying to establish personal and national identities. — Jose Saramago

The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes. — Robert Wilson Lynd