Stradations Quotes & Sayings

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. — Jorge Luis Borges

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. — Anthony Burgess

I had everything summed up in a nutshell unfortunately I lost the nut. — Benny Bellamacina

Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. — Suzanne Collins

The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either. — Lydia Lunch

So we face our final hours ... and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories. — Tad Williams

I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember. — Bill Vaughan

You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy — Rick Riordan

Their [plant secondary compounds] healthful effects in humans, however, are not well understood, in part because things in nature like coriander and basil can't be patented so there isn't a lot of money being thrown at them, and in part because long-term studies that measure small effects of low doses are expensive and don't yield the kind of unambiguous, major effects you get with pharmaceuticals, but mainly because preventions are never as exciting as cures. — Mark Schatzker