Reobserve Quotes & Sayings

I've gone into the outside world to reobserve society. The sign language of emotion I once knew has been replaced by a matrix of interrelated equations. Lines of force twist and elongate between people, objects, institutions, ideas. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. At — Ted Chiang

While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. "What will be the use of that?" he was asked. "To know this tune before dying." If I dare repeat this reply long since trivialized by the handbooks, it is because it seems to me the sole serious justification of any desire to know, whether exercised on the brink of death or at any other moment of existence. — Emil Cioran

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait. — Roger Ebert

Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows. — Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no relationship between bliss and peace. Peace is dependent on the pudgal (Complex of intake and output; body complex) while bliss is the nature of the Self (the Soul). — Dada Bhagwan

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments. — Thomas Malthus

This is mine," he growled, fangs bared. "You are mine."
Bria met him stare for stare. "Prove it. — Kate Baxter

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. — Frank Herbert

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them. — Pauline Kael

If we people become more helpful to others, there will be much less tragedy in the world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it. — Kirstie Alley