Taunted Def Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing to fear from truth ... Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right. — Ray Dalio

At home, she loved the movies. She loved sitting in the dark, waiting for something wonderful to begin. Especially, the tragic and frightening movies in which ladies fainted dead away and monsters roared up out of the dark. Like in that cartoon her mother had taken her to see when she was very small, in which the dark-haired princess ran away into the terrible forest and the owls flew at her and pecked at her hands. That was wonderful--because the world was suddenly alive and excited and wanted things just the way September herself sometimes wanted things. Even if the world seemed mainly not to want a princess bothering it. September had not liked the princess so much, either, as she had a high, breathy voice she found deeply annoying. But the owls and the mines and the flashing eyes in the wood--that she had liked. — Catherynne M Valente

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals. — Louis Garrel

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. — Richard Le Gallienne

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine? — Rumi

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. — Booker T. Washington

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages. — Ellsworth Huntington

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. — Kurt Vonnegut

Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life. — Elizabeth George

Life isn't a linear journey. Sometimes it's one step backwards, two steps forward and then a jump out to the side. It's kind of like the "Time Warp", when you think about it.
Life follows many directions and hopefully, eventually, your mind and body and life and love, all catch up with each other. — Karina Halle

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. — Michael Eisner

Do what you will, the heart hardens and the soul shrinks in upon itself. — Mikhail Lermontov

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't — Robert A. Heinlein