Puddleducks Quotes & Sayings

I don't understand anything ... and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact ... If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I've made up my mind to stick to the fact. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The real power is power over men. How does one man assert his power over another, Winston? By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together in new shapes of your choosing." (Orwell) — Victoria Louise Sadler

I got the part [in Into the Forest], I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre. — Evan Rachel Wood

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment. — Lev Grossman

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb. — Patrick Rothfuss

Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting. — William Shatner

an unbroken line of unrelated people — Cathleen Schine

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust. — Edward Abbey

Different development itself runs the threat of making life shapeless. — Todd May

Chaos and love when hand in hand and oh, the glorious grace of the world because of it. — J.R. Ward

We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations. — Menachem Begin

Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence
at least in the United States of America
represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era, our financial-economic system, and our ethics. — Robert David Steele

Love transcends all barriers. Age, Gender, Caste et al are the diktats of society to thwart love, promote strait jacketed family life . . ."

"If love could transcend all barriers why not that of gender as well? — Jayant Swamy