Milton Mamet Quotes & Sayings

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. — Thomas Huxley

each day be open to the world, be ready to think; each day be ready not to accept what is said just because it is said, be predisposed to reread what is read; each day investigate, question, and doubt. — Paulo Freire

I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route. So, as for readers - when I think about them I like to think they read the same books I do. — Kevin Keck

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Look at you sitting here with your legs spread and my cock so fucking deep I don't think I'll ever leave. Jesus, Addison. I thought you were perfect before. Now I fucking know it. — Ella Frank

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us. — J.B. Priestley

Oleg Bard: I understand, but by virtue of that power of imagination which, according to [Georgi] Plekhanov, is granted to Marxists, I can already see as through a prism, so to speak, the triumph of your class as symbolized by your sublime, ravishing, elegant, and class-conscious wedding! — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Don't invite the friend in distress to call; just show up - and don't forget the mop and broom. — David P. Ingerson

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did. — John Cale

I think that whether you're married or not, in any relationship, there's always the terror that you're going to screw something up. — John Krasinski

A vegan diet is one of the best things you can do for your health and the well being of our planet. — Robert Cheeke

He wanted to run through the stacks, pick at the books, sample them one after the other, climb the stacks to their highest reaches and see what treasures were hidden there. — Lavie Tidhar

Say what you liked about the people of Ankh-Morpork they had always been staunchly independent, yielding to no man their right to rob, defraud, embezzle and murder on an equal basis. This seemed absolutely right, to Vimes's way of thinking. There was no difference at all between the richest man and the poorest beggar, apart from the fact that the former had lots of money, food, power, fine clothes, and good health. But at least he wasn't any better. Just richer, fatter, more powerful, better dressed and healthier. It had been like that for hundreds of years. — Terry Pratchett

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you ... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie. — Ted Nugent

Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches. — Ursula K. Le Guin