P248 Quotes & Sayings

Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We find it more and more difficult to achieve a sense of continuity, permanence, or connection with the world around us. Relationships with others are notably fragile; goods are made to be used up and discarded; reality is experienced as an unstable environment of flickering images. Everything conspires to encourage escapist solutions to the psychological problems of dependence, separation, and individuation, and to discourage the moral realism that makes it possible for human beings to come to terms with existential constraints on their power and freedom. — Christopher Lasch

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them. — Stephen Fry

I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen. — Laura Marling

If you get made fun for the way you look, then maybe wearing the same thing every day is the best way to protect yourself. — John C. Reilly

Yes, you're sleeping in my apartment," I said. "On my sofa. It was an exciting night, but not that exciting. I'd really hope you'd remember if it had been. — Kelley Armstrong

Power is the only thing that anyone is really after. — Pittacus Lore

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely. — Malachy McCourt

Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie — Ally Carter

A good chessplayer having lost a game is sincerely convinced that his loss resulted from a mistake he made and looks for that mistake in the opening, but forgets that at each stage of the game there were similar mistakes and that none of his moves were perfect. He only notices the mistake to which he pays attention, because his opponent took advantage of it. How much more complex than this is the game of war, which occurs under certain limits of time, and where it is not one will that manipulates lifeless objects, but everything results from innumerable conflicts of various wills! — Leo Tolstoy

Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance. — Kay Redfield Jamison