Modestie Dex Quotes & Sayings

( ... ) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain. — Terry Pratchett

A letter to send to you and if I forget, or god forbid die too soon, hope that you'll hear me,know that I wrote to you. — Sara Quin

The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission. — Russell Lynes

I'm into creating something that I've never created before. — Big Boi

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Contract had an air of esoteric mysticism when it covered topics related to the universe's deepest secrets, yet it was gratuitously specific regarding the wrath of Thotash and the penalty for default. Huge swaths of the unholy text were dedicated to the terrors and woes that would fall upon those who failed to meet the Terms, including pestilences of the skin, debilitating afflictions of vital organs, nameless horrors from forgotten dimensions, and the "rain of teeth," though whose teeth was uncertain. Article VIII, section 3, subsection B was particularly unsettling, assuming one had sufficient familiarity with anatomy to grasp it fully — J. Zachary Pike

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment. — Isaac Babel

Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago. — Mario Lemieux