Resolutely Def Quotes & Sayings

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud. — Robert Higgs

We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean. — Taylor Rhodes

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all. — Martin Luther

And Ulysses stopped his ears against the siren's song for it was death. — V.E Schwab

Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival. — Liu Cixin

Those who are truly humble will never presume to judge and condemn others, even when they see them committing very serious wrongs. They will say to themselves, "Who knows how much more grievously I would sin if I were exposed to the same temptations as these persons?" or, "Who can tell how much better these persons would be than I am if they had received from God the graces that have been granted to me? — F.J. Remler

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings. — Harry Patch

Now we've a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself. — Robert M. Pirsig

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church. — Gregory Benford

She stepped closer to him. "I look like a hobo?" "Worse," he said. "Like a sad hobo clown." "And you like it?" "I love it." As soon as he said it, she broke into a smile. And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside him. Something always did. eleanor — Rainbow Rowell

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce

An uneducated, half-brained serving boy with a hangover could make mock of you. I am left with no need to exert myself, and your very nature makes mockery of my mockery. And so it is that through sheer stupidity you make me look incompetent. — Brandon Sanderson