Subconsciously Def Quotes & Sayings

But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it. Heuristics — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The shape of your character is the shape of your future. — Erwin McManus

There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history. — Paul Watson

My skin came alive under his fingers, every touch an electric crackle through my veins. — Andrea Cremer

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. — Charlie Chaplin

[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. — John Paul Stevens