Structuralists Quotes & Sayings

You really liked having him in jail, like people who shut birds up in cages on the excuse that they're protecting them from their enemies. — Costas Taktsis

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless. — Neal Shusterman

Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity. — Peter Drucker

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. — William Ellery Channing

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. — William Ralph Inge

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them. — Chris Raschka

Flavius's foot catches on a metal grate over a circular opening in the floor, and my stomach contracts when I think of why a room would need a drain. The stains of human misery that must have been hosed off these white tiles ... — Suzanne Collins

My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood. — Jeri Ryan

He always refused, knowing that any new space would immediately be an excuse to go out and buy more useless stuff with which to fill it. — Fredrik Backman

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. — Stephen Colbert

In the past, when she'd looked at her reflection, she had still seen the little girl she'd once been; the woman in the mirror had still been an extension of her girlhood self. Now it was the future she saw. The wrinkles would deepen; her skin would sag; the lights of her eyes would dim. Her youth was fading, easing into the past. — Justin Cronin

At this day ... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; ... but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God. — John Calvin

We need a world-wide Department of Peace. — Anne Waldman

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will? — Cassandra Clare

He and his kind having been almost entirely eclipsed by the Parisian post-structuralists and their caravanserai of prolix and impenetrable evangels and dogmatically zealous acolytes. — Stephen Fry