Saigonese Tattoo Quotes & Sayings

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. — John D. Rockefeller

It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over. — Charles Dickens

The standard-brand religions [...] are - as now practiced - like exhausted mines: very hard to dig. With some exceptions not too easily found, their ideas about man and the world, their imagery, their rites, and their notions of the good life don't seem to fit in with the universe as we now know it, or with a human world that is changing so rapidly that much of what one learns in school is already obsolete on graduation day. — Alan W. Watts

The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers. — Theresa May

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success. — Albio Sires

Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling. — Chris Raschka

Reality never has to make sense. Fiction does. — Paulina Mielech

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists. — Mal Fletcher

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. — Alfred North Whitehead

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. — Bertolt Brecht

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? The reason is clearly that the human heart as modern civilisation has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied, because it feels deply, perhaps even unconsciously, that it has somehow missed the meaning of life, that perhaps others, but not we ourselves, have secured the good things which nature offers man's enjoyment. — Bertrand Russell

He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he was quite incapable of filling it with anything; but with his whole being he suddenly felt that he no longer possessed any freedom of thought or of will, and that everything had suddenly been decided once and for all. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

People don't change," Nina said bitterly. "They just get more punctilious about hiding their true selves. — Ruth Ware