Timpul Verbului Quotes & Sayings

The postmodern poststructuralists go from saying "there is no final perspective" (or "perspectives are boundless") to saying "therefore there is no advantage in any perspective over another." This leveling of perspectives is not an interrelation of all perspectives but is itself merely one particular and covertly privileged perspective (and thus ends up, as we have seen, being perfectly self-contradictory: there is no advantaged perspective except mine, which maintains that all other perspectives are not so privileged). — Ken Wilber

All that stuff about Father Earth, it's just stories to explain what's wrong with the world. Like those weird cults that crop up from time to time. I heard of one that asks an old man in the sky to keep them alive every time they go to sleep. People need to believe there's more to the world than there is. — N.K. Jemisin

I don't know why I went with him. Maybe it was because he'd said he'd missed me, and I was sick and tired of not being wanted. — J.L. Merrow

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. — Rose Macaulay

Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region. — Israel Shenker

I wear black while suckers wear pink. — Kool Keith

What do you not have, Lord Hardford?" she asked. "For no one has everything, you know, or even nearly everything. — Mary Balogh