Uncelebratory Quotes & Sayings

Social Darwinists of the day were forever on about the joys of bloody teeth and claws, but they were curiously uncelebratory of speed and deception, poison and surprise. — Thomas Pynchon

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change. — Sophia Amoruso

Don't let a few silly truths muddle up a good story. — A.C. Gaughen

Autumn ripens in the summer's ray. — John Armstrong

Basketball Rule #10

A loss is inevitable,
like snow in winter.
True champions
learn
to dance
through
the storm. — Kwame Alexander

She glared at me. I didn't care. One word was playing a loop in my heaad: mine. — Kristen Callihan

Life is as a result of time evolution — Sunday Adelaja

Fathers left distinctive footprints; sons should think of noble footsteps — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets. — Dougray Scott

I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across. — Drew Carey

A Culture based on superstitions will do worse than one based on scientific knowledge and rational thoughts — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

everybody knows too much about everything to know anything. And somehow that turns into everyone thinking everything is probably the opposite of what it is, or maybe not the opposite, but something else anyway. Everything you always thought is always proved wrong so the only way to act is against whatever you think. — James W. Blinn

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted ... and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are. — Victoria Woodhull

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. — Samuel Johnson