Modsquad Quotes & Sayings

Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all their possessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help. That's right. Falling in love is pretty much the same thing as being eaten alive by a grizzly bear. — Jess Rothenberg

I could tell you that dying's an art / and I am learning fast. — Stephen King

There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State." — Fulton J. Sheen

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. — Paul Ricoeur

When you're a Catholic kid, the nuns teach you that when something is annoying you, you "offer it up", as a sacrificial gift. — Rob Sheffield

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it. — Victoria Legrand

For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping. — Virginia Woolf

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. — Jason Isbell

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come
when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict
the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to
others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special
privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom. — Benjamin Rush

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?' — Gina Barreca

A sign above the sink said "Non-potable." I couldn't imagine anyone drinking out of a sink in such a nasty place, but all signs are there for a reason, usually because someone has tried it. Don't use a hair dryer in the bathtub, don't stick forks in the toaster, and don't drink the water in a Kuwaiti latrine cube. — Yancy Caruthers

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation. — Isaac Newton

I would give up everything for you, Giulia"
I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world ... — Deanna Raybourn