P1129 Quotes & Sayings

To really fear something you have to dwell on it. — Patrick Rothfuss

I like David Foster Wallace. But if you type David Foster Wallace into OkCupid, it's a shitshow. — Moira Weigel

You are a philosopher, Thrasymachus, I replied, and well know that if you ask a person what numbers make up twelve, taking care to prohibit him whom you ask from answering twice six, or three times four, or six times two, or four times three, 'for this sort of nonsense will not do for me,' - then obviously, if that is your way of putting the question, no one can answer you. But suppose that he were to retort, 'Thrasymachus, what do you mean? If one of these numbers which you interdict be the true answer to the question, am I falsely to say some other number which is not the right one? - is that your meaning?' - How would you answer him? Just as if the two cases were at all alike! he said. Why should they not be? I replied; and even if they are not, but only appear to be so to the person who is asked, ought he not to say what he thinks, whether you and I forbid him or not? — Plato

This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them. — Alexis Hall

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance. — Corrine Brown

Living a self-absorbed life will always be at the cost of everyone else. — Timothy Keller

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin. — Peter Matthiessen

-Most people would say that she's beautiful.
-That's because she's been with most people. — Daniel Handler

Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he [or she] live in. — Edward Kasner

There are people who like cute, furry things and people who eat cute, furry things
-Issy, pag. 53 — Carrie Jones