Sharpshooting Uk Quotes & Sayings

I believe that the emergence of postmodernism is closely related to the emergence of this new moment of late, consumer or multinational capitalism. I believe also that its formal features in many ways express the deeper logic of that particular social system. I will only be able, however, to show this for one major theme: namely the disappearance of a sense of history, the way in which our entire contemporary social system has little by little begun to lose its capacity to retain its own past, has begun to live in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve. Think only of the media exhaustion of news: of how Nixon and, even more so, Kennedy are figures from a now distant past. One is tempted to say that the very function of the news media is to relegate such recent historical experiences as rapidly as possible into the past. — Fredric Jameson

Conscience,' Hobbey said with infinite sadness. 'I had one once. Ambition killed it. — C.J. Sansom

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high. — LeCrae

You are who you are. Deal with it. — H.M. Ward

If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ... Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God. — Thomas Jefferson

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans. — Terence McKenna

A cry of despair escaped her lips. When had she fallen in love with him? — Kiki Hamilton

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience. — Rachel Kushner

If you still use the word "I" to identify and represent yourself,
that explains why you still use less than 20% of brain capacity. — Toba Beta

If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life. — Judy Blume