Trudges Clue Quotes & Sayings

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. — Steven Weinberg

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy. — Nora Ephron

The more people know, the more they forgive. — Confucius

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me. — Joseph Heller

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. — Naomi Wolf

The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective. — Miguel Syjuco

You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you. — Mena Suvari

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. — Jerry Leiber

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis. — Abraham Myerson

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself. — C.S. Lewis

Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything. — Tom Scholz

A moment or two of serious self-scrutiny, and you might observe that you no more decide the next thought you think than the next thought I write. — Sam Harris

I wear my mistakes like badges of honor, and I celebrate them. — Amy Schumer