Unwilding Quotes & Sayings

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly. — Thomas Frank

But he could not help wondering, as he did, that if he was so damn wise, why was his life in such a mess? — Margaret Weis

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done. — Tom Osborne

Get tae fuck, son. — Mark Wilson

If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources. — Alexander Stille

Any society, in order to survive, must mold the character of its members in such a way that they want to do what they have to do; their social function must become internalized and transformed into something they feel driven to do, rather than something they are obliged to do. — Erich Fromm

let a man have his heart weakened in spiritual things, and very soon his entire life will feel the withering influence. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas. — Rebecca Stead

In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves
'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials. — Jonathan Ive

All the same I fear what happens when we expand the terrain of medical practice to include actively assisting people with speeding their death. I am less worried about the abuse of these powers than I am about dependence on them. — Atul Gawande

We all have to meet our match sometime or other. — Richard Adams

the word that the Buddha used for suffering, dukkha, actually has the more subtle meaning of "pervasive unsatisfactoriness," I was even more impressed. "Suffering" always sounded a bit melodramatic, even if a careful reading of history seemed to support it. "Pervasive unsatisfactoriness — Mark Epstein

We'll have all the best of this and Heaven too, the best of two Worlds!-Heaven now and Heaven to come! — David Berg

You'll not go anywhere," he announced. "Yes, I will," she said, through gritted teeth. "You'll use a chamber pot." "I will not!" He thrust his hand in front of her face. The heavy silver ring sat prominently on his middle finger. "This says you'll obey me," he growled. "You'll use the chamber pot because I command you to do so!" "You'll have to hold me there and that just isn't going to happen," Jessica argued. "What is the difference between that and - " "Richard!" He made a sound of impatience. "'Tis nothing to be ashamed of, Jessica. I would expect the same care from you. And if memory serves, I had it when I had the fever before. Isn't that so?" "It was different." "Aye, 'twas me with my arse bared to the daylight! — Lynn Kurland