Reposing Cold Quotes & Sayings

good writers know how to shift around their alphbet — Smrithi Eswar

I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line, and others again, for all I know, as triangles and cubes. Mine is a wavy line proceeding to infinity, dipping to Wednesday which is the colour of old silver dark with polishing and rising again to a pale gold Sunday. This day has a feeling in my picture of warmth and light breezes and sunshine and afternoons that stretch to infinity and mornings full of far-off bells. — Angela Thirkell

The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on. — Gloria Steinem

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for. — Jack Newfield

My master! and who made him my master? That's what I think of - what right has he to me? I'm a man as much as he is. I'm a better man than he is. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people. — Isabelle Huppert

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican. — Penn Jillette

It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment. — Catherynne M Valente

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on. — Alan Price

Listen to your conscience. You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life. — Frank Sonnenberg

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say. — William James

Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary. — Bhagat Singh

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

If you want to predict the future...write it yourself.

I heard these words by Paul Saffro a number of years ago and they really stuck with me — Declan Clarke

Keep in mind that without the law, we're not a military, just an armed gang that dresses alike. — Marko Kloos