Trenchantly Quotes & Sayings

Open your heart; open your mind. Let love bloom; let's be kind. — Debasish Mridha

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times. — Robert Anton Wilson

Get out of my computer immediately. I'm willing to move past the fact that you hacked me, but it ends now."
"No more backdoor?"
"No more backdoor."
He appeared crestfallen. "Ever?"
"Never," Kate said firmly.
"Not even on my birthday or like a special occasion?"
"Are we still talking about my computer?" she asked.
"You probably are. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge — Socrates

After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them. — Lauren Miller

What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force. — Orhan Pamuk

The world makes things for each place. Fish for the sea, Rocs for the mountain skies, and girls with sun in their skin and perfect aim for a desert that doesn't let weakness live. — Alwyn Hamilton

The downside of attending to the emotional life of groups is that it can swamp the ability to get anything done; a group can become more concerned with satisfying its members than with achieving its goals. Bion identified several ways that groups can slide into pure emotion - they can become "groups for pairing off," in which members are mainly interested in forming romantic couples or discussing those who form them; they can become dedicated to venerating something, continually praising the object of their affection (fan groups often have this characteristic, be they Harry Potter readers or followers of the Arsenal soccer team), or they can focus too much on real or perceived external threats. Bion trenchantly observed that because external enemies are such spurs to group solidarity, some groups will anoint paranoid leaders because such people are expert at identifying external threats, thus generating pleasurable group solidarity even when the threats aren't real. — Clay Shirky

My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature. — Hiam Abbass

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. — William Law

For the first time in twenty-two years after the jaw tilt, Feb didn't take her eyes off him. And for the first time in twenty-two years, he gave her a smile. — Kristen Ashley

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen? — Peter Tosh