The Wire Episode Title Quotes & Sayings

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness. — Paullina Simons

For thousands of years, China developed its own political system. Its rulers, no matter who they are, are given a conditional right to govern by the people. In the past, but even now it is called a "Heavenly Mandate". If the rulers fail to respect the will of the people, they get deposed. And the Communist Party of China is greatly respectful of the desires of the majority of the Chinese people. — Andre Vltchek

The premise of Ezequiel Morsella's PRISM model7,8 is that consciousness originally evolved for the delightfully mundane purpose of mediating conflicting motor commands to the skeletal muscles. (I have to point out that exactly the same sort of conflict - the impulse to withdraw one's hand from a painful stimulus, versus the knowledge that you'll die if you act on that impulse - was exactly how the Bene Gesserit assessed whether Paul Atreides qualified as "Human" during their gom jabbar test in Frank Herbert's Dune.) — Peter Watts

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over. — Rickie Lee Jones

Bravery means doing something scary. Fearlessness means not even understanding what the word scary means. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The inclination to share thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.If in pain I wish to let you know it,and ask your sympathy and assistance;and my pleasurable emotions also,I wish to communicate to,and share with you. — Abraham Lincoln

Most people never think beyond their birth. But if I had contented myself with everyone else's opinions of me, I wouldn't be the man I am today. People like us make our own destinies, Gwenwhyfar - and to the waves with the naysayers who oppose us. — Jennifer McKeithen

We do things for good reasons that are bad. — Francis Ford Coppola

What makes the strength of a soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered. — Muriel Barbery

True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. — J. Oswald Sanders

I just want to tell you I'm quitting.'
'What? You can't quit,' Chuck said.
'I hate working here.'
'We all hate working here. That doesn't mean we quit. Only quitters quit.'
'I'm quitting. — Rainbow Rowell

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake. — Annie Dillard

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. — Hun Sen

The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology — Steve Jobs

What worth would my life be to me or my family if I stood by and allowed you to face danger alone when I could help. — Jan Walker