Uscendoff Quotes & Sayings

Fate is a lazy man's excuse for avoiding curiosity. — Brian Farrey

Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue. — P.T. Barnum

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't? — Sebastian Junger

I had always liked my anorexic reflection. It meant seeing the parts instead of the whole. Each connection, each articulation of muscle, skin, and bone made explicit. Gert said that we all had distorted images of ourselves. Either fatter or skinnier than we really were. She said we hated our bodies, hated ourselves. I had never thought so. — Stephanie Grant

A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet after he had been spat on; she would comb his tangled hair; she would look into his embittered eyes. The more lacerated his soul, the more revolting and contemptible he became to the world, the more she would love him. She would run after a truck; she would wait in queues on Kuznetsky Most, or even by the camp boundary fence, desperate to hand over a few sweets or an onion; she would bake shortbread for him on an oil stove; she would give years of her life just to be able to see him for half an hour ...
Not every woman you sleep with can be called a wife. — Vasily Grossman

Only he who is without anything is without enemies. — Rafael Sabatini

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. — Christopher Hitchens

Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and our worth is boundless because He gave everything to have us. — Anna Blanc

Our technology forces us to live mythically — Marshall McLuhan

You can't make anything idiot proof because idiots are so ingenious. — Ron Burns