Unacademic Quotes & Sayings

Delve deep to know your true self — Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't tie yourself in knots trying to predict the future. — Jennifer Fallon

The same uneven application of values applies in the weird worlds of academia and the think tanks. Like the media, they choose to close off their minds the moment that the question of Islam comes along. Most bizarre is that you can get away with saying anything, absolutely anything, so long as it is flattering of Islam. It doesn't matter how soppy, how sentimental, how completely unacademic it is: so long as it's about Islam, different standards apply. — Douglas Murray

Bullshit. You're as much of a man as I am. You're the sleek little sports car to my Land Rover. — Jay Northcote

Still the king would have turned away, but Schmendrick touched his arm and leaned near. "It's true, you know," he whispered. "But for him
but for them all
the tale would have worked out quite another way, and who can say that the ending would have been even as happy as this? You must be their king, and you must rule them as kindly as you would a braver and more faithful folk. For they are your fate. — Peter S. Beagle

If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed. Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment. — Jane Austen

I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience. — Steven Spielberg