Nastinesses Quotes & Sayings

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian. — Anthony Foxx

I think when magic is dark enough, it can look like anything it wants. — Laura Oliva

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us. — Ruby Wax

The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn't belong to her, one that wasn't in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn't belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn't know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better. — Terry Pratchett

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths. — Antonin Artaud

Faith in a higher power helps us to control our mind and thoughts. — Mata Amritanandamayi

The path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks to diffuse the private ownership of capital instead of abolishing it entirely. It seeks to make all men capitalists instead of preventing anyone from being a capitalist by making the State the only capitalist. — Louis O. Kelso

The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework. — Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing. — Katherine Heigl

After September 11, I wondered rhetorically midway through a column what we in the West are prepared to die for, and got a convoluted e-mail back from a French professor explaining that the fact that Europeans weren't prepared to die for anything was the best evidence of their superiority: they were building a post-historical utopia - a Europe it would not be necessary to die for. But sometimes you die anyway. — Mark Steyn

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention. — Charles B. Rangel

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot. — Tracy McMillan

What does a man possess if not for the memories left behind after he has departed? — Benjamin M. Strozykowski