Mid Autumn Festival 2013 Quotes & Sayings

Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings. — Josh Silver

Therefore, any social or political system in which people get things they don't earn, or are rewarded for lack of self-discipline or for immoral behavior, is simply an immoral system. — George Lakoff

We steer completely clear of anything suggestive. — Bill Haley

When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera. — Andrea Riseborough

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch. — Pat Conroy

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story. — Gerard Way

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions. — Anthony Bourdain

The free intellect copies human life, but it considers this life to be something good and seems to be quite satisfied with it. That immense framework and planking of concepts to which the needy man clings his whole life long in order to preserve himself is nothing but a scaffolding and toy for the most audacious feats of the liberated intellect. And when it smashes this framework to pieces, throws it into confusion, and puts it back together in an ironic fashion, pairing the most alien things and separating the closest, it is demonstrating that it has no need of these makeshifts of indigence and that it will now be guided by intuitions rather than by concepts. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Be assured, I do not suffer from a sense of humor. — Dan Simmons

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. and when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them. — Anna C. Salter

Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less. — Tony Robbins

When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don't scratch it! — Anthony Marais