Truncates Quotes & Sayings

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. — Maximilien Robespierre

You win some and you lose some. Unless you're Virgil, then you lose them all. — Bobby Heenan

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit. — Kevin Harrington

Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise. — Jim Butcher

When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover. — Joyce Carol Oates

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed ... — D.H. Lawrence

America today limits girls' development, truncates their wholeness and leaves many of them traumatized. — Mary Pipher

Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me. — K.T. Tunstall

Perdu reflected that is was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people. — Nina George

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life. — Stella Adler

Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling. — A.A. Gill

I believe you did not have a happy life.
I believe you were cheated.
I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery.
I believe your busiest enemies were anger and depression.
I believe joy was a game you could never play without stumbling.
I believe comfort, though you craved it, was forever a stranger.
I believe music had to be melancholy or not at all.
I believe no trinket, no precious metal, shone so bright as your bitterness.
I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the wiser and unassuaged.
Oh, cold and dreamless under the wild, amoral, reckless, peaceful flowers of the hillsides. — Mary Oliver

Education is a light for self awaken. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity. — Erwin Panofsky

Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength. — Jane Casey

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio. — Mickey Mantle

Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud , also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level man as the being who is human. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a science of man which does not fragmentize man and destroy his humanity at the same moment as it studies him. It unites science and ontology . — Rollo May