Weeper Holes Quotes & Sayings

What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it. — Cornel West

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna) — Swami Vivekananda

Go out and collect data and, instead of having the answer, just look at the data and see if the data tells you anything. When we're allowed to do this with companies, it's almost magical. — Steven Levitt

This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me. — Paullina Simons

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them. — Bernard Malamud

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners. — C.S. Lewis

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel. — Deborah Harkness

Wise man can make people hear
more lessons than words spoken. — Toba Beta

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them. — Alex Berenson

Sebastian, women like sex just as much as men ... if it's good."
He tried to smile but still looked uncertain, his forehead creasing with worry.
"Am I ... ?"
He bit his lip.
I knew what he was trying to ask me.
"Yes, you're good. In fact I'd say you're amazing: in so many ways. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural. — Michael Shermer

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth. — Alan Rudolph

If you don't start, you're finished. — Max McKeown

At dinner members of the 8th enthusiastically told each other to pass the fucking salt, you fucking sack of shit, until Brahe told them to quit that goddamn shit, cocksuckers, because it got old pretty goddamn quick. — John Scalzi