Vulgaria Book Quotes & Sayings

In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown. Victory is assured to the combatant who is both physically and mentally nonresistant. — Robert Linssen

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end. — Evelyn Waugh

You're into her. You're into the girl we came here to kill. — Stacey O'Neale

You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need. — Shannon L. Alder

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer. — Mark Dever

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world. — Nicolas Berggruen

If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work. — Steve Toltz

Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world. — Fidel Castro

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. — Bernard Baruch

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts. — Michel De Montaigne

The fact that novels and films about confidence tricksters are usually highly successful is based on the observation that the topical and temporary creation of micro-realities (or 'tricks') is not a million miles away from what we're all doing every day. — Momus

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like. — Daniel J. Siegel

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it ... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me. — Aubrey Beardsley

Simply unleashing our imaginations can be empowering. — Paul Rogat Loeb

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well. — Sydney Thompson Dobell