Whitneyslp Quotes & Sayings

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things. — Joseph Epstein

[I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission. — Mary Doria Russell

You can't see both sides of one coin at once, can you, child? The god of money always keeps a secret.
The god of money was also the god of spies. — Marie Rutkoski

Affirmation of life even in its strangest and sternest problems; the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types - that is what I call dionysian — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mild-mannered Abe, however, is Tarzan of the traffic jungle. He knows the strict species pecking order: pedestrians are on the bottom and run out of the way of everything, bicycles make way to cycle-rickshaws, which give way to auto-rickshaws, which stop for cars, which are subservient to trucks. Buses stop for one thing and one thing only. Not customers - they jump on while the buses are still moving. The only thing that can stop a bus is the king of the road, the lord of the jungle and the top dog.
The holy cow. — Sarah Macdonald

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly. — Sam Altman

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. — David Suzuki

I found it challenging to give her an accurate account of his odd humanity, his unique philosophy, and his uncentred morality — Haruki Murakami

I feel bad for using the world old as synonymous with bad. Where did I learn that to look old as a woman is bad? Maybe I learned it, like, everywhere. — Melissa Broder

Puppets, zeitgeisty dressed, they dance on the edge of fire-breathing volcanoes -
lack of emotion in their faces. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color. — Chris Froome