Mean Sonofabitch Quotes & Sayings

That's a sure way to tell about somebody
the way they play, or don't play, make-believe. — Madeleine L'Engle

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. — Carl Jung

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful. — George E.P. Box

The transfer society is forever testing the bounds of patience of taxpayers. Having reached the limit and still facing loud demands for more benefits, it resorts to deficit financing. — Hans F. Sennholz

Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I', every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow the world. — Salman Rushdie

I didn't mean to kill nobody ... I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord. — R.L. Burnside

The challenge to shifting perspective can be broken down into two general categories. The first relates to passive ignorance - people are not aware that they even have a perspective and that others might see things differently. The second relates to active indifference or resistance - we don't care that the other side may see things differently; we only want to see things our own way. — Donny Ebenstein

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. — Samuel Butler

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards. — Andy Summers

Clemens laughed until he began coughing again. "Don't you see, James?" he said at last. "You and I are only minor characters in this story about the Great Detective. Our little lives and endings mean nothing to the God-Writer, whoever the sonofabitch might be. — Dan Simmons

In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you. — Chris Adami

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same. — Iris Murdoch

How could I ever be disappointed in you, Regan? You're a little damaged. So am I. Maybe we're both a little more fucked-up than normal, but we'll be nice and fucked-up together. — Jessica Clare

Things never happen the same way twice. — C.S. Lewis

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work. — Gregory Benford