Scrublordgames Quotes & Sayings

How can you be a 'Former-Father'? Is it possible to be a father but, because someone or something is determined to illegalize it, being a father becomes a thing of the past? Should you simply consign yourself to be effectively dead to your living children; as though the fact of being their father has somehow been terminated, nullified or otherwise, deemed non-existent? I believe the basic answer to be 'No! — H. Kirk Rainer

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions. — Donald Cargill

I said, "The thing we quested after is never attained."
He said, "The unattainable - that thing is my desire! — Muhammad Iqbal

I reread my favorite books to make sure they're still perfect, but rereading them wears away at their perfection. — Sarah Manguso

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

By crossing into a space whose curvature is no longer that of the real, nor that of truth, the era of simulation is inaugurated by a liquidation of all referentials - worse: with their artificial resurrection in the systems of signs, a material more malleable than meaning, in that it lends itself to all systems of equivalences, to all binary oppositions, to all combinatory algebra. It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real, that is to say of an operation of deterring every real process via its operational double, a programmatic, metastable, perfectly descriptive machine that offers all the signs of the real and shortcircuits all its vicissitudes. — Jean Baudrillard

Be happy with those who are joyful. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields. — Alan Cohen

If you're angry with me, say it. If I've done something you don't like, tell me. If you want to end this marriage, have the courage to end it cleanly so that I might - might - be able to recover from it. Because if you keep looking at me as though you wish we weren't married, you're going to destroy me. — Deborah Harkness