Pouzece Quotes & Sayings

I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then. — Matt Bomer

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today, — Mark Haddon

To mark the paper was the decisive act. — George Orwell

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun. — Isaac Newton

Works for me. For the ones we love, today we're allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong. — Slavoj Zizek

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore. — Adam Ross

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her. — Samuel Johnson

You make me greedy for you. I just can't get enough. I wish you would just accept it for what it is and trust me. — J.B. McGee

[There] is ... a problem that bedevils all of us as members of communities of believers. I call this problem our disagreement deficit, and it comes in four parts.
... First, our communities expose us to disproportionate support for our own ideas. Second, they shield us from the disagreement of outsiders. Third, they cause us to disregard whatever outside disagreement we do encounter. Finally, they quash the development of disagreement from within. — Kathryn Schulz