Noption Quotes & Sayings

I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer files between operating systems, and generally speaking, if you wanted to do Office stuff, you needed a Windows machine. — Michael Arrington

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient. — Julian Baggini

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness. — Dalai Lama

I encased my heart in stone so as to stop it from beating — Sonya Watson

However, by carefully noting Eve's inaccurate quotation of God's prohibition a few verses later, Bonchek shows that by "exaggerating the actual prohibition (from one tree to 'every tree of the garden'), the serpent created a new, but lopsided, frame of reference," a frame that catches Eve off guard and slyly manipulates her into ultimately deciding on a course of action she would not have agreed upon otherwise. Eve — Bradley J. Kramer

The art of politics is to be ahead of your time
about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there. — Gloria Steinem

Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst. — Robert Smith

Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting; they also put money into their pockets that they'll then spend - and their spending will keep other Americans in jobs. — Robert Reich

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact. — Gary Numan

We do not imagine that the "masses" may consist of automatons obeying external stimuli and may move, not under the influence of the will, consciousness, or inclination of individuals, but under the influence of external stimuli coming possibly from very far away. — P.D. Ouspensky

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. — Katharine Lee Bates

She was my opposite, but I wanted to be like her. I wanted to fall in love underneath a tree, fast and hard. I wanted someone to forget me and then remember me in their soul, like her Caleb did. — Tarryn Fisher

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today. — Hassan Blasim