Macelaru Dirijor Quotes & Sayings

In former days Bob Arctor had run his affairs differently: there had been a wife much like other wives, two small daughters, a stable household that got swept and cleaned and emptied out daily, the dead newspapers not even opened carried from the front walk to the garbage pail, on even, sometimes, read. But then one day, while lifting out an electric corn popper from under the sink, Arctor had hit his head on the corner of a kitchen cabinet directly above him. The pain, the cut in his scalp, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. It lashed on him instantly that he didn't hate the kitchen cabinet: he hated his wife, his two daughters, his whole house, the back yard with its power mower, the garage, the radiant heating system, the front yard, the fence, the whole fucking place and everyone in it. He wanted a divorce; he wanted to split. And so he had, very soon. And entered, by degrees, a new and somber life, lacking all of that. — Philip K. Dick

Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future. Instead, focus only on the task at hand. — Siddhattha Gotama

The trees are so huge that they shut you up. — Anne Lamott

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. — Niels Bohr

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny. — Ayn Rand

From now on, there would be no other oaths but this, no other contracts, no other obligations. Never forgive, never forget. — Sarah J. Maas

I'd rather have head to head and right now they're not getting any numbers. She's [Jill Stein] doing better than he [Gary Johnson] is, but right now in some polls she's actually not doing badly. — Donald Trump

Two other passengers, besides the one, were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail. All three were wrapped to the cheekbones — Charles Dickens

Evans understood that if Nakamura chose, it would be indiscriminately and their number would include the sickest - and perhaps most likely the sickest, because they were of least use to Nakamura - and that all of them would die. If, on the other hand, he, Dorrigo, chose, he could pick the fittest, the ones he thought had the best chance of living. And most would die anyway. That was his choice: to refuse to help the agent of death, or to be his servant. — Richard Flanagan

Religion exists to instill false security and blind faith, — Kelley Armstrong

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four. — Susan Jacoby

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. — Arthur Helps