Takeuchi Tb016 Quotes & Sayings

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr

Anything I had to say seemed shallow beside the depth of his grief. Words are awkward tools at best, too blunt for delicate tasks. — Mark Lawrence

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant. — Becky Chambers

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy. — Patrick Ness

When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle, absolutely incredible. Your ancestors have gone back hundreds of millions of years." And to develop a thing as simple as a shrimp cocktail, you have to calculate the hundreds of millions of years that have preceded that moment where you're sitting there with your sauce and fork poised. — Sylvia Earle

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? — Cormac McCarthy

It's more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make. — B. Barmanbek

Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you."
She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?"
"Like a favorite vice. — Ilona Andrews

I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.'
'Wonderful,' Po said. 'It's quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It'll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife. — Kristin Cashore

With that said, don't be trifling about being a feminist. It really infuriates me when high-profile people in your position self-identity as feminists just because it's trendy at the moment and then don't do any of the, you know, actual work of trying to make things equal for everybody. You're going to have to roll up your sleeves and get dirty in order to create a society that takes women as seriously as the men. The type that encourages us to not define ourselves by who we go to bed with at night, but by who and what we see reflected back at us in the mirror in the morning. The type that recognizes that women are not a monolith and that they have wildly different experiences informed by their race and/or sexuality. Be that beacon of light that we can look toward. Be the feminist who will help normalize the idea of Feminism for society. Be the feminist everyone needs. No presh. 3C. — Phoebe Robinson

I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.' — Ottessa Moshfegh

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor. — Vincent D'Onofrio

Goodreads is where introverts unite. — Groucho Marx

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. — Dave Barry

Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in. — Uma Nnenna