Otodidakt Quotes & Sayings

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius

You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people. — Prince Andrew

The longer you work, the more money you'll have for retirement. But the longer you work, the less time you'll have to enjoy that retirement. - Wall Street Journal — Ernie J Zelinski

Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love. — Diplo

The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency. — Uwe Reinhardt

The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

This works, but it's hard to imagine that anybody except a hard-core functional programmer would consider it pretty. — Anonymous

Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough structural common ground in the text itself so that we can talk to each other, even sometimes persuade each other, about what we read: and that many-voiced conversation, with which, thankfully, we shall never have done, is one of the most gratifying responses to literary creation, second only to reading itself. — Robert Alter

I'm not massively fond of right-wing nutters or war criminals. — Alastair Reynolds

Fear stagnation; embrace change. — Debasish Mridha

There are no winners in battle. Just survivors. — E.E. Knight

summer Olympics, — Nancy E. Krulik

The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me." — Wayne Dyer

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. — Elie Wiesel