Smislata Quotes & Sayings

One of the key psychological characteristics of the Tea Party is its oxymoronic love of authority figures coupled with a narcissistic celebration of its own "revolutionary" defiance. It's this psychic weakness that allows this segment of the population to be manipulated by the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. The advantage is that their willingness to take orders has allowed them to organize effectively (try getting one hundred progressives at a meeting focused on anything). The downside is, they see absolutely nothing weird in launching a revolution based upon the ravings of a guy who's basically a half-baked PR stooge shoveling propaganda coal for bloodsucking transnational behemoths like JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. — Matt Taibbi

I clung on to time, and consequently to learning, the only human activity that makes time our ally. — Cesar Aira

A few weeks into our stay, I made a friend who wanted to improve his English as much as I wanted to improve my French. We met one day in the crowd in front of Notre Dame. We walked to the Latin Quarter. We walked to a wine shop. Outside the wine shop there was seating. We sat and drank a bottle of red. We were served heaping piles of meats, bread, and cheese. Was this dinner? Did people do this? I had not even known how to imagine it. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

We believe that peace is hard-won,
That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace.
But more than that, we believe that
Justice is more important than peace. — Veronica Roth

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. — Laurence Sterne

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless. — Gary Renard

A Russian who uses his imagination is done for. I certainly never use mine. — Haruki Murakami

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible. — Napoleon Hill

When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream. — Pia Toscano

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. — Blaise Pascal

Fear is often described as False Evidence Appearing Real. — Nick Vujicic

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all — Whitney Houston

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ... — Elizabeth Montagu

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States, — Elizabeth Catlett