Prognosticated Def Quotes & Sayings

He said, A peace that is disturbed is not peace. And a silence that is disturbed is just a dream, not a reality. — Osho

From day one it was like society was this violent, complicated dance and everybody had taken lessons but me. Knocked to the floor again, climbing to my feet each time, bloody and humiliated. Always met with disapproving faces, waiting for me to leave so I'd stop fucking up the party.
The wanted to push me outside, where the freaks huddled in the cold. Out there with the misfits, the broken, the glazed-eye types who can only watch as the normals enjoy their shiny new cars and careers and marriages and vacations with the kids.
The freaks spend their lives shambling around, wondering how they got left out, mumbling about conspiracy theories and bigfoot sightings. Their encounters with the world are marked by awkward conversations and stifled laughter, hidden smirks and rolled eyes. And worst of all, pity. — David Wong

I was lucky before, but now, I can hardly remember what it was like without him. — Garrett Leigh

Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations. — Liu Cixin

I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender, I might just want to drink my latte and buy pretty shoes and write books about girls who marry, die, or go insane, then go get my nails done. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Sheila's about the only young girl in this place and she naturally assumes that she ought to have it all her own way with the young things in trousers. Naturally it annoys her when a woman, who in her view is middle-aged and who has already two husbands to her credit, comes along and licks her on her own ground. [...] No, I think it's age daring to defeat youth that annoys her so much! — Agatha Christie

People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is just not the case in the insect world. — Marlene Zuk

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury. — George Washington

When she stamped her foot, it made a strange thud on the desolate beach. Like a heartbeat. — David Adams Richards

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores. — Anne Lamott

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE — Paul Pearsall

Justice. Law. Although both were vital in order to protect the innocent, they did not always work to everyone's liking. — Paulo Coelho

When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that. — Shaun White

She'll never forget this. She'll always remember ... me. Maybe that's chauvinistic and egotistical, but it's the truth. Up and down, over and over, I lick her from end to end. — Emma Chase