Vitari Nstv Quotes & Sayings

Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation. — Theodor Adorno

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative. — Lenny Jacobson

Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Educators are in the news, too. Usually that's bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you're probably going to jail. — Tucker Elliot

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water. — Aloysius Martinich

Organisms [ ... ] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role. — Stephen Jay Gould

Sir Mark Turner," he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath. — Courtney Milan

Good thing about hanging out with a pregnant woman: designated driver by default. — Amelia C. Gormley

People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust ... ' — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality. — Barack Obama

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. — Ingmar Bergman

I almost let it go. I think it was the yellow dress. It made me want to give her the benefit of the doubt. What can you say about a woman who wears a yellow dress to break into an office at night? How bad can her intentions be?
Still, I was reasonably certain she wasn't telling the truth. Not that it bothered me. Not really. I watched her sitting there, bent slightly forward, the palm of her right hand open in her lap, her left hand rubbing her shoulder. Lips curled in a smile. Innocent eyes looking back at me. It was like being lied to by a basket of kittens.(p134) — Harry Dolan