Mawata Silk Quotes & Sayings

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life ... Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy? — Aldous Huxley

Democracy does not speak in unison; its tunes are dissonant, and necessarily so. It is not a predictable process; it must be undergone, as a passion must be undergone. It may also be that life itself becomes foreclosed when the right way is decided in advance, or when we impose what is right for everyone, without finding a way to enter into community and discover the "right" in the midst of cultural translation. It may be that what is "right" and what is "good" consist in staying open to the tensions that beset the most fundamental categories we require, to know unknowingness at the core of what we know. — Judith Butler

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself. — Meryl Streep

If it's not tested, it's broken. — Bruce Eckel

Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you! — L.M. Montgomery

Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging. — Amy Ridenour

I told you I don't want to meet 'girls' and I'm not going to find a woman of any substance at the bars where you yahoos hang out."
"Then set up one of those online dating accounts. They have them for older folks now."
"Older folks?" Rohn let out a snort as that hit him hard, like a punch to the gut.
"Great. Thanks a lot." How the hell old did these kids think he was, anyway? Rohn had quite a few years left before he turned fifty ... — Cat Johnson

I am the type of person that I complain about. — Frank Warren

Its beyond him now. its time for you to do you own thing."
"My thing? my thing only worked if Grace was here to make it work. without Grace, i have an emotionally unbalanced wolf and a Volkswagen. — Maggie Stiefvater

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

I'm looking forward to some peace and quiet. I fantasize about having a home, which I've kind of never had. — Lykke Li

We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election. — Jeb Bush

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write. — Jennifer Rowe