Pikovaya Dama Quotes & Sayings

Everything is worse ... if you think something is looking at you. — Shirley Jackson

Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence? — Franz Wright

It seemed so odd that faith should so be sacrificed in the name of religion. — Brandon Sanderson

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs. — Carl Sagan

The behavioral programme of the post-social society during the post-capitalism interregnum is governed by a neoliberal ethos of competetive self-improvement, of untiring cultivation of one's marketable human capital, enthusiastic dedication to work, and cheerfully optimistic, playful acceptance of the risks inherent in a world that has outgrown government. That this programme is dutifully implemented is essential, as the reproduction of the post-capitalist society lite hangs on the thin thread of an accommodating systematic architecture. Structuralist critique of false institutions may therefore have to be complemented by a renewed culturalist critique of false consciousness. — Wolfgang Streeck

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who? — Mick Ebeling

A scoop of pure honey set in a green bowl. — Peter Godfrey-Smith

In the same way that your Emotional Set-Points can change from feeling basically good or secure to feeling bad or insecure, your set-points can change from not feeling good to feeling good, for your set-points are achieved simply by attention to a subject, and through your practiced thought. — Esther Hicks

I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run. — Aziz Ansari

When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking! — Mark Grace

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance. — Jean Ziegler

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos. — Jimmy Fallon