Mafiascum Quotes & Sayings

To subject to scrutiny the mechanisms which render life painful, even untenable, is not to neutralize them; to bring to light contradictions is not to resolve them. But, as skeptical as one might be about the efficacy of the sociological message, we cannot dismiss the effect it can have by allowing sufferers to discover the possible social causes of their suffering and, thus, to be relieved of blame. — Pierre Bourdieu

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done. — Susan Orlean

Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit. — Xenophon

Playtime was over. I grabbed her by the shoulders and threw her down on the bed. — Matt Abrams

There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker. — Sadegh Hedayat

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. — Diane Abbott

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. — James Rollins

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you. — Helen Fielding

Happiness comes by doing difficult things. — Jim Miller

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things. — Iyanla Vanzant

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it ... — Per Petterson

I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening. — Peter Jackson