Ranticus Quotes & Sayings

pain that would extend down his spine into one leg or the other, like a wooden stake set aflame and thrust into him: — Hanya Yanagihara

The First Month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring — Okey Ndibe

In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling. — Michael Pollan

Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them. — Andrea Arnold

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring. — Horace

See the world with new eyes every day. — Dewitt Jones

What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind. — Sylvia Plath

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers. — Arianna Huffington

All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real ... — Vijay Seshadri

Hey a rant. Haven't done one of those in a while. S'good to stretch out the Longevitus Ranticus section of the brain once in a while, otherwise you just become passive and might even- god forbid- lose the ability to stretch it in the first place. — Joseph Bullock

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see. — Kurt Russell

Judge Ted Poe's critics - like the civil rights group the ACLU - argued to him the dangers of these ostentatious punishments, especially those that were carried out in public. They said it was no coincidence that public shaming had enjoyed such a renaissance in Mao's China and Hitler's Germany and the Ku Klux Klan's America - it destroys souls, brutalizing everyone, the onlookers included, dehumanizing them as much as the person being shamed. — Jon Ronson

I don't get stressed out. — Andrew Mason

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. — Eric Hoffer