Takach Press Quotes & Sayings

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. — George S. Patton Jr.

At the same time, minor failings or incidental impropriety may, he feels, be interpreted as a direct expression of his stigmatized differentness. Ex-mental patients, for example, are sometimes afraid to engage in sharp interchanges with spouse or employer because of what a show of emotion might be taken as a sign of. Mental defectives face a similar contingency: It also happens that if a person of low intellectual ability gets into some sort of trouble the difficulty is more or less automatically attributed to "mental defect" whereas if a person of "normal intelligence" gets into a similar difficulty, it is not regarded as symptomatic of anything in particular.31 — Erving Goffman

I believe in a world where all these things can happen, even if I have to do them myself. — Adrian Lamo

What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts again (and it's true) every morning. — Bruno Latour

It was intolerable what lay hidden within another, intolerable tat you could not divide one person into another with no remainder. — Rebecca Goldstein

You gotta show kids YOU'RE not scared (even if inside at times you are) and when you show you're not afraid of the "monsters" then they too will stand up even when the lights are off. — Jill Telford

I feel hollow inside, as if there's a black hole where my heart was, as if I am caving in around myself. — Beth Revis

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. — Terry Pratchett

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish. — Louis Zamperini

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life. — Mary McCarthy

How to be listed as a dream in the mind of a young girl is an art, going out is a masterpiece. — Soren Kierkegaard

I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact. — Scott Walker

Beauty is a willing loss of mental control, surrendered to organic process that is momentarily under the direction of an exterior object. The object is not thought and felt about, exactly. It seems to use my capacities to think and feel itself. — Peter Schjeldahl

How long is forever when you can stop the time for a while to see ... the sunrise? — Haidji