Tripolino Cotton Quotes & Sayings

What I do know is that if you give a human being a chance to be stupid and violent, then they're going to take it, every time. No matter where they are. — Patrick Ness

The body of knowledge keeps increasing at incredible speed, but the literature of nonknowledge grows even faster. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Who would have imagine that the sound your life made as it disintegrated was total silence? — Jodi Picoult

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm. — Carl Hiaasen

A healthy self and an empty self are not contradictory; it just appears so because we use the same language to describe two different things. The whole path of meditation is about understanding that the self as an unchanging entity is a fiction, an illusory mental construct. — Joseph Goldstein

Though a smile is little work, its effects are long lasting. — Bucky Buckbinder

We don't grow fangs, you idiot! — Darren Shan

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it. — Georges St-Pierre

Exactly that girl, not the prettiest, but the no-makeup and kind of ordinary-looking girl he'd chosen to be happy — Donna Tartt

All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no love songs, and the sound of children's laughter is never, ever heard. — Hitomi Kanehara

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things. — Christian Nestell Bovee

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. — Freya Stark

Under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row. — Vladimir Nabokov

I spent nine years trying not to have any expressions, trying to be my sister. Now I can't smile, not even if I want to. — Otsuichi