Rapidas Quotes & Sayings

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow. — Jim Thompson

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead. — Arthur M. Jolly

I was away from home, I was a virgin, I thought I had a soul. — Jonathan Aycliffe

Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. Henry — William Golding

Brands frantically tried to compete for users' fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant. — Shawn Amos

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like. — Karen Marie Moning

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself. — Fredric Jameson

What if this - this rule that says what I did in the back room that day is a terrible sin - what if that's just a rule some old white man made up, too? — Robin Talley

The number of annual drug arrests more than tripled between 1980 and 2005, as drug sweeps and suspicionless stops and searches proceeded in record numbers. — Michelle Alexander

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time? — Rick Perlstein

The "dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue. — Friedrich Engels

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden

No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion. — Stuart Hughes

I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on the one hand, that didn't seem enough to me, and on the other, it seemed to much. — Frederick Buechner

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already. — Jerry Lewis