Lapdog Define Quotes & Sayings

The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see the state transformed into an immense social machine, all the individual components of which are strictly limited to the performance of a definite and specialised function, where there could be no freedom because the machine could only work smoothly as long as every wheel and cog performed its task with unvarying regularity. Now the nearer modern society comes to the state of total organisation, the more difficult it is to find any place for spiritual freedom and personal responsibility. Education itself becomes an essential part of the machine, for the mind has to be as completely measured and controlled by the techniques of the scientific expert as the task which it is being trained to perform. — Christopher Henry Dawson

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Your pain was always a part of a plan to open your heart to love. — Bryant McGill

I raised my eyes to meet his gazing
And whispered to him, "I LOVE YOU!"
He looked so utterly amazing,
Divinely handsome, to be true. — Tatyana K. Varenko

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. — William H Gass

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion. — Ludwig Feuerbach

A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music. — Weyes Blood

I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own." The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures. — Jeffery Deaver