Ostin Liss Quotes & Sayings

The daily effort it took to appear normal was so great that it left energy for little else. — Hanya Yanagihara

We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture. — Iman

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I'm proud of it. — Paul Krugman

To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time.
But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time.
Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind.
The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience.
Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback. — David Mazzucchelli

We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet's view of the mutilated body thus has nothing to do with the previous century's Romanticism of fragments and ruins; it is part of the breakthrough in modern art to the concept of the object that states itself with authority and the body that publicizes itself with authorization. — Peter Sloterdijk

He asked questions, he was interested and interesting, he rarely spoke of himself. He had a calm voice for the worst accidents and emergencies. — Zadie Smith

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature. — Jerry Rubin

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth. — William Davenant

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did. — Meg Wolitzer

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. — John Dryden

Your a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss — Richard Paul Evans

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion. — Noam Chomsky