Volodine Quotes & Sayings

Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope. — Antoine Volodine

The statists want to control the economy. — Grover Norquist

It will come all right in the end. — Ramana Maharshi

At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it. — Erich Fromm

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place. — Billy Connolly

When you grow up in middle America you are inculcated from the earliest age with the belief - no, the understanding - that America is the richest and most powerful nation on earth because God likes us best. It has the most perfect form of government, the most exciting sporting events, the tastiest food and amplest portions, the largest cars, the cheapest gasoline, the most abundant natural resources, the most productive farms, the most devastating nuclear arsenal and the friendliest, most decent and most patriotic folks on Earth. Countries just don't come any better. So why anyone would want to live anywhere else is practically incomprehensible. In a foreigner it is puzzling; in a native it is seditious. I used to feel this way myself. — Bill Bryson

Dancing hotdogs don't say shit. — Janet Evanovich

Holy fucking Batman there's a panther in my bed. — Tricia Sullivan

She was not the sort of woman guys settle for. She was the one they lust after and strive for. She was the one who ruins other people's relationships simply by existing, but she will always be surmounted as guys come to realize the virtues of the approachable girl next door. She was, in brief, too pretty to be trusted or had. — Thomm Quackenbush

Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday!
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Whenever I meet a pretty girl, the first thing I look for is intelligence; because if she doesn't have that, then she's mine. — Anthony Jeselnik

Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography. — Glenn Greenwald

It's been a long day. I got shot at, got a water tower dumped on my head, and had my wedding fall apart. Now Wayne is dropping broken walnut shells all over my chair. Honestly, I think I just need a drink. — Brandon Sanderson

The law of sowing and reaping is the most trustworthy law of behavior. — Henry Cloud

The reason for this is, that what we call thought (1) is itself an orderly thing, and (2) can only be applied to material, i.e. to perceptions or experiences, which have a certain degree of orderliness. — Erwin Schrodinger