Startlingly Prescient Quotes & Sayings

What an indictment that is, of the Ivy League and its peers: that colleges four levels down on the academic totem pole, enrolling students whose SAT scores are hundreds of points lower than theirs, deliver a better education, in the highest sense of the word, than do those institutions. — William Deresiewicz

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you. — Don Rickles

Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise. — Roger Delano Hinkins

Fear hardens caution, but boredom erodes it. — David Mitchell

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result. — Joyce Carol Oates

It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges. — Emil Zatopek

Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism. — Dan Barker

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? — Douglas Coupland

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. — Jeanette Winterson

As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda
the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government
in their analysis of its authoritarian social program. Indeed, according to Bertram Gross in his startlingly prescient Friendly Fascism (1980), it is possible to achieve fascist goals within an ostensibly democratic society. — Richard Heinberg

With blood and tears we spill our fears." She waved a hand over the cauldron, and the liquid within began to stir. "A pinch of salt times four to close and bolt the door. Weeds to bind, berries to blind. My children he will not see, and they will live safe and free. Pretty petals tinged with hate, scented sweet and so to bait. Boil it all in fire and smoke, and on this potion Cabhan chokes. When I call he comes to me, as I will, so mote it be. — Nora Roberts