Samler Taphouse Quotes & Sayings

Randomness and lack of warning are the attributes of human violence we fear most, but you now know that human violence is rarely random and rarely without warning. — Gavin De Becker

'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot. — Peter Biskind

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. — William O. Douglas

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them. — Teresa Of Avila

...If only one had a little more time to do some important reading, all the secrets in the world would become clear. — Lemony Snicket

There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring. — Amanda Palmer

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms. — Connie Willis

And yet, when we stopped at the last hamlet and I saw him embrace the elders and leave gifts, saw the hope that he left behind, and remembered it was he who had saved Kaden from the savagery of his own kind, I wondered if anything I felt in my gut really mattered. — Mary E. Pearson

The truth is, Jung has brought back one member of the old duality, unreason, with a new name; it is no synthesis at all, but only the latest maneuver in the war against rationality that has been conducted with rising hysteria by literary intellectuals and humanists against the laws of a culture they have reason to distrust and disobey. The Jungian theory proposes to every disaffected humanist his "personal myth," as a sanctuary against the modern world. Against the vulgar democracy of intelligence, Jungian theory proposes an aristocracy of feeling. From this proposal derives Jung's persistent influence on modern critical and aesthetic style. — Philip Rieff

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones. — Robert Wright

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family. — Selena Gomez

Words being but a breath, the stir of awakened minds is like the rustling of leaves. — Victor Hugo