Maestroshield Quotes & Sayings

There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather a man who stands lost in admiration at the gun that is raised to shoot him. — Ahdaf Soueif

The New York Times, baffled by Delaware's obstinacy, tried to argue the state into change in an 1867 editorial. If it had previously existed in [the convicted person's] bosom a spark of self-respect this exposure to public shame utterly extinguishes it. Without the hope that springs eternal in the human breast, without some desire to reform and become a good citizen, and the feeling that such a thing is possible, no criminal can ever return to honorable courses. The boy of eighteen who is whipped at New Castle [a Delaware whipping post] for larceny is in nine cases out of ten ruined. With his self-respect destroyed and the taunt and sneer of public disgrace branded upon his forehead, he feels himself lost and abandoned by his fellows. - QUOTED IN ROBERT GRAHAM CALDWELL, Red Hannah: Delaware's Whipping Post — Jon Ronson

It's not the span of time that matters. It's the quality of love you have in that time that counts. For some people a thousand years would never be enough. — Dan Skinner

Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the truth is that the contribution of each individual cannot be reduced to zero ... if we believe that the size of the human "footprint" is a serious problem (and there is much evidence for this) then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed — Chris Rapley

People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier. — Anna Paquin

I don't think that now: half of everything is something, not nothing. Lots of somethings — Justine Larbalestier

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do. — Robert Genn

A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn't deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn't desire in all. — Anuj

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. — Jeff VanderMeer

Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is. — Chris Hayes

(Trunk-or-treating, for those who don't know, is just like trick-or-treating, except with cars instead of houses, lame decorations instead of awesome ones, and no fun instead of fun.) — Ken Jennings

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team. — Charles Mingus