Silberberg 8th Quotes & Sayings

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. — Alfred Adler

I'm such a bookworm, and I'm such a people-watcher. It took the Internet a while to catch on in Ireland, because the culture there is, you go to the pub and talk to people there, and that's how you get the news and all the gossip. You just do it face to face. And culturally, you just couldn't understand. — Patton Oswalt

Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age. — Ivan Illich

Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one's life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or forces, the existential crisis by which art - great art - is fully experienced. There is a fluidity between art and life, then, in the same way that there is, in the best lives, a fluidity between mind and matter, self and soul, life and death. Experience seems to stream clearly through some lives, rather than getting slowed and clogged up in the drift-waste of ego, or stagnating in little inlets of despair, envy, rage. It has to do with seizing and releasing as a single gesture. It has to do with standing in relation to life and death ... owning an emptiness that, because you have claimed it, has become a source of light, wearing your wound that, like a ramshackle house on some high exposed hill, sings with the hard wind that is steadily destroying it. — Christian Wiman

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise. — Alain De Botton

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now. — Method Man

She that in life and love refuses me,
In death and shame my partner she shall be. — Thomas Middleton

When you just cannot stop working. When completing this one project is all you can imagine. — Chuck Palahniuk

Judging others is easy because it distracts us from the responsibility of judging ourselves. — Charles F. Glassman

If nothing else, all these years as a spy had taught her something important--regimes changed. Ideals changed. There was no such thing as an agency or government or political party that had only the good of the people in mind. You gave your loyalty to the right people at the right time to achieve your goal, and the rest was up for negotiation. — Kate Cross

What you feel is wrong or missing in your relationships is an indication that something is amiss within you. — Wayne Dyer