Susceptible Host Quotes & Sayings

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever. — Lajos Kossuth

But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin. — Roland Barthes

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? — Boethius

[R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation. — Clay Shirky

For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our species - and we're just animals too, we're just mammals - that there is nothing morally special about us. I myself don't think this follows at all from Darwin's vision, but it is certainly the received view in many quarters. — Daniel Dennett

O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us! A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr ... ! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately! — Albert Camus

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist. — Stephen Colbert

Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see. — Theodore Roosevelt

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country. — Stephen Kinzer