Substantiated Def Quotes & Sayings

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. — Eric Hoffer

It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you. — Oprah Winfrey

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will. — William Shakespeare

Ugh! Erin. You have a one-track mind."
She smiled deviously. "I prefer to think of it as target-driven. — Tammara Webber

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom. — Alan Watts

Only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the environment is de-restricted to become the world as an integral whole of manifest and latent elements. The second step is the work of language. This not only builds the 'house of being' - Heidegger took this phrase from Zarathustra's animals, which inform the convalescent: 'the house of being rebuilds itself eternally'; it is also the vehicle for the tendencies to run away from that house with which, by means of its inner surpluses, humans move towards the open. It need hardly be explained why the oldest parasite in the world, the world above, only appears with the second transcendence. — Peter Sloterdijk

Why don't you kids dance? he decided to say, and then said it. "Why don't you dance? — Raymond Carver

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me. — Thomas Sowell

His father had a dream: to keep his hands forever clean. Joey wasn't clear whether his father had ever understood that it takes a lot of digging in the dirt to do that. — William H Gass