Wiernik Paola Quotes & Sayings

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance. — Terence McKenna

There would be a time, when you will ask for nothing but life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Orwell's 1984 [ ... ] is political thought disguised as a novel; the thinking is certainly lucid and correct, but it is distorted by its guise as a novel, which renders it imprecise and vague. [ ... ] the situations and the characters are as flat as a poster.
The pernicious influence of Orwell's novel resides in its implacable reduction of a reality to its political dimension alone, and in its reduction of that dimension to what is exemplarily negative about it. I refuse to forgive this reduction on the grounds that it was useful as propaganda in the struggle against totalitarian evil. For that evil is, precisely, the reduction of life to politics and of politics to propaganda. So despite its intentions, Orwell's novel itself joins in the totalitarian spirit, the spirit of propaganda. It reduces (and teaches others to reduce) the life of a hated society to the simple listing of its crimes. — Milan Kundera

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person. — Angelina Jolie

Pele should go back to the museum. — Diego Maradona

Despair is the constant companion of the clown. — Angela Carter

Be wary when people tell you that they don't produce a lot, but when they do, it will be "brilliant." Remember that innovation is largely a function of productivity. — Robert I. Sutton

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuild your ideals too. Rebuild the principles that made you a great and honorable galactic power in the first place. Don't prey on the weak. Don't steal from the helpless. Don't murder the innocent. Be a force for good, not a force for yourself. — Dan Abnett

Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek. He does love you, and He knows your fears. He hears your prayers. He is your Heavenly Father, and surely He matches with His own the tears His children shed. — Jeffrey R. Holland

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood;
Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-read heath,
The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent horror of blood
And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers "Death". — Agatha Christie

If the force of arms is considered the only means of authority, it is not an auspicious instrument. — Lao-Tzu

Looking at Death, is Dying - ... — Emily Dickinson

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them. — Ian Hart

Of course, on every job there are moments where you're not having fun. — Peter Jacobson

I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy. — John Lee Mahin