Modernistic Coupon Quotes & Sayings

If the Space Beings want to contact you, they will do so. They do the choosing. — Brad Steiger

But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery? — Nick Hornby

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it. — Robin Wright

Overwork has long been cast as a choice, and a positive one borne out of love at that. But the truth is that for so many, there is no choice. — Miya Tokumitsu

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. — Simone Weil

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. — Richard Flanagan

Think about the farmer," Akil tells me. "The farmer can't control and predict very much either. So why is that any better or worse than being on Wall Street? As a farmer, if there was a freeze that destroyed your crops, that might've stressed you, but it wasn't your fault. But as a knowledge worker, you're expected to be in charge of everything. And when things go wrong, it is your fault. The thinking is, you could have planned more, or you should have anticipated what went wrong. That combination of having a lot coming at you and of shifting away from physical work - which does help cope with stress - and not even being able to say, 'It's not my fault, I surrender to higher forces,' whether you believe it's weather or God - that's been taken away." * — Brigid Schulte

Fire beats roses again. — Suzanne Collins

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility. — Stephenie Meyer

Americans are good at herding Bison. The end. — Jeremy Clarkson

A fourteen year old to steal my virginity on the moor and rape me till I come. — Sarah Kane

My hair is an aesthetic choice ... At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well. — Erykah Badu

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. — Alvin Dark