Procrustes Bed Quotes & Sayings

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves. — Judith Guest

The Procrustean bed ... suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large vocabulary and an oleaginous tongue, not unlike the chairmen of many English departments.) There's just one crucial difference. Sometimes Procrustes lopped off his victims, and sometimes he stretched them, but the Culture Wars always lop. I have never seen cultural politics enlarge a work of literature, only diminish it. — Anne Fadiman

The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that's the code of honor. — Sugar Ray Leonard

every relationship had its own "love account." Doing something kind for your partner was like a deposit. A negative comment was a withdrawal. The trick was to keep your account in credit. — Liane Moriarty

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them. — Colleen Hoover

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. — Charlie Kaufman

The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known. — Pete Seeger

In the beginning was the relationship. — Martin Buber

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all. — Jane Green

The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast. — Rick Wagoner

Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn't fit - well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation - the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments. — Aldous Huxley

The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort — Ulf Wolf

Sometimes the spirit of a man isn't strong enough to survive the ghosts of his past — Colleen Hoover

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis. — Daniel Johns

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself. — Aristotle.

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine. — Kevin DeYoung

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son. — Henry B. Eyring

Procrustes, in Greek mythology, was the cruel owner of a small estate in Corydalus in Attica, on the way between Athens and Eleusis, where the mystery rites were performed. Procrustes had a peculiar sense of hospitality: he abducted travelers, provided them with a generous dinner, then invited them to spend the night in a rather special bed. He wanted the bed to fit the traveler to perfection. Those who were too tall had their legs chopped off with a sharp hatchet; those who were too short were stretched (his name was said to be Damastes, or Polyphemon, but he was nicknamed Procrustes, which meant "the stretcher"). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months. — Umberto Guidoni