Rapaciously Def Quotes & Sayings

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace. — F. Murray Abraham

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be. — James Frey

Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis. — Gorilla Zoe

She saw Hitler as "a clown who looked like Charlie Chaplin." Like many others in America at this time and elsewhere in the world, she could not imagine him lasting very long or being taken seriously. — Erik Larson

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life. — Joel Osteen

It is best to think of culture as a repertoire, like that of an actor,a musician, or a dancer. This image suggests that culture cultivates skills and habits in its users, so that one can be more or less good at the culture repertoire one performs,and that such cultured capacities may exist both as discrete skills,habits and orientations, and in larger assemblages, like the pieces a musician has mastered or the plays a actor has performed. It is in this sense that people have an array of cultural resources upon which they can draw. We can ask not only what pieces are in the repertoire but why some are performed at one time, some at another. — Karyn Lacy