Textural Description Quotes & Sayings

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool. — Gore Vidal

There's nothing sadder than a book that hasn't been cared for, a book too broken to read. — Rin Chupeco

To my countrymen
who gave unto themselves the constitution but not the ability to keep it,who inherited resplendent heritage but not the wisdom to cherish it,who suffer and endure in pain without the perception of their potential. — Nani Palkhiwala

The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. That's why it cannot last."
"Abraham Lincoln was damaged goods?"
"The need to lead is a symptom. — Whitley Strieber

You see, his mother has thrown me out of the house because I was unfaithful to her. Or rather the faith I had wasn't the right kind. Given the absence of mind-reading technology, humans believe monogamy is possible. — Matt Haig

Don't you know who you love, Pudge? You love the girl who makes you laugh and shows you porn and drinks wine with you. You don't love the crazy, sullen bitch. — John Green

Every human being has the same potential. Whatever makes you feel "I am worthless" is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought, so what could you possibly be lacking? If you have the willpower, then you can do anything. — Dalai Lama XIV

And it didn't matter how many songs or poems had already been written about them, because whenever he thought about the girl, the stars shone brighter. As if she were the one keeping them illuminated. — Stephanie Perkins

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message. — Les Parrott

For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life. — Aidan Gillen

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. — Ralph Chaplin

I'm a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand. — Jim Butcher

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California. — Venus Williams