Parodistically Quotes & Sayings

Growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy. — Abigail McCarthy

Habiba. It's an old word that means dear friend. — Jessica Khoury

Some people do not even want to look at a person when the person is alive, but when the person dies they write eloquent obituaries and make offerings of flowers. At that point the person has died and cannot really enjoy the fragrance of the flowers anymore. If we really understood and remembered that life was impermanent, we would do everything we could to make the other person happy right here and right now. — Thich Nhat Hanh

If we want to reignite innovation and passion, we have to rehumanize work. — Brene Brown

Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political. — Anne Fontaine

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. — Ruth Benedict

With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network. — David Weinberger

It is not difficult to get everything one needs; it is not possible to get everything one wants! — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy. — Jan Schakowsky

Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind. — Jose Saramago

I have always been thoroughly bewildered by North Korea. They cannot be threatened, as they feel themselves superior to the one making the threat. They cannot be reasoned with, and most importantly, they are 100 percent convinced of their righteousness, so they cannot be bought. Megalomaniacs with delusions of grandeur are notoriously difficult to handle, but how generations of them can follow one another is beyond me. — Sylvain Neuvel