Lagenweb Quotes & Sayings

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying. — Marjane Satrapi

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde. — Oscar Wilde

The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press. — Salvador De Madariaga

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw it. — John Madden

Self awareness is only powerful when knowledge is understood and applied, only then can it manifest into true wisdom! — Martin R. Lemieux

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are. — Geoff Mulgan

Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore. — Alex Pareene

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. — George Will

It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having to bother to think aloud. It is like listening in a cathedral to a eunuch chanting in a language which he does not even need to not understand. — William Faulkner

I have a remedy against thirst, quite contrary to that which is good against the biting of a mad dog. Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you; drink always before the thirst, and it will never come upon you. — Francois Rabelais