Problematized Quotes & Sayings

For each thorn, there's a rosebud ... For each twilight - a dawn ... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow ... For each shadow - the sun ... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One 'is' a genius only in the sense that one 'is' a syphilitic, in the sense that 'one' is violently problematized by a ferocious exteriority. One returns to the subject of which genius has been predicated to find it charred and devastated beyond recognition. — Nick Land

League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules. — Adrian Hadley

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity. — Leo Errera

Experience had proven that the only way these regulations would be heeded was if they were implemented by force. — Azar Nafisi

That's one of the things my family miss most when I'm travelling - my Sunday roasts and my Japanese meals. — Jade Jagger

As a New York Times article points out, failure has been transformed from an action (I failed) to an identity (I am a failure). This is especially true in the fixed mindset. — Carol S. Dweck

Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another. — Jonathan Lethem

I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there. — Randall Park

Being intercontinental champion doesn't mean you're a champ. It means you're the future. — Cody Rhodes

Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to use an infinitely problematized but necessary term here) is fundamentally positive. And the evidence that in disasters people are really pretty kind, generous, brave, resourceful and creative fed that. — Rebecca Solnit

Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents' clout. — Claire LaZebnik

This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Thus the activity of preservation should be distinguished from the nostalgia accompanying fantasies of a lost home from which the subject is separated and to which he seeks to return. Preservation entails remembrance, which is quite different from nostalgia. — Iris Marion Young

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky. — Tim Crouch

The model of the U.S. economy is that we are the country that does new things. — Peter Thiel

Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. — Ovid