Pernkopfs Atlas Quotes & Sayings

There are some problems that technology can't solve. — Nick Bostrom

I never said that I was going to write a literary masterpiece. I just wanted to write something to make people feel something, hopefully in the nether regions. — Jennifer Lassalle Edwards

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. — Publilius Syrus

Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for only the latter have produced an effect. Likewise only with supposed heroes. His theme, so-called world history, is opinions about supposed actions and their supposed motives, which in turn give rise to further opinions and actions, the reality of which is however at once vaporised again and produces an effect only as vapour - a continual generation and pregnancy of phantoms over the impentetrable mist of unfathomable reality. All historians speak of things which have never existed except in imagination. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Why do you shine so fucking bright? You make it hard for me to sleep next to you. — L.J. Shen

He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling — Abbi Glines

In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine,' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce. — Joel Robuchon

Blood might be thicker than water, but love was the most powerful magic of all. — Lucy Connors

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that he said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children and to make yourself as innocent and to see the world through eyes of wonderment and the whole magical quality of it all. — Michael Jackson

Months after my wrists ripping, a talk therapist referred to the act as self-hatred. Until then nobody had said this to me. Did everyone presume that I already knew so? People say it all the time. It's safer to draw this conclusion. Throw in cowardice and you have an insulated public. I was not enraged at all. I was panic stricken. How could I hate myself for wanting to stop such physical sickness and terror? Mine was an act of caretaking, compassion, love. You cannot share this insight with therapists because they think such encourages recurrence. Have you ever stopped diarrhea with a prayer? If you have to go, you go. If you have to die, you die. — Brian Spellman