Lotman Challenge Quotes & Sayings

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends — Milan Kundera

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure. — Napoleon Hill

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time. — Osho

One of these people was a girl who exemplified everything I could ever come up with to want. We grew very close very quickly and revealed dreams and compared fears and mocked gently and occasionally told lies, but nothing bad. The sex, I'm sorry, Dad, but the sex was unlike anything I believed might someplace exist. I remember lying with her in bed and touching her thigh and thinking, My God. This is the reason I grew hands in the first place. — Kyle Beachy

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic. — Doug Liman

This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never can!" a declaration which, however common, in spirit if not in substance, is, when one comes to analyse it, unparalleled in its arrogance of blasphemy. That for a single offence, however grave, a whole life should be blasted, is a doctrine repugnant even to Nature's own dealings in the visible world. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice. — Chicken John