Ysabeaus Scribble Quotes & Sayings

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness. — Han Fei

Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration! — Napoleon Hill

When men give up saying what is charming," Oscar answered, "they give up thinking what is charming. I hope I'll never do that. — Gyles Brandreth

I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial in the country and that the most important thing we need in the current situation is, whatever disagreements there may be on tactics, that the legitimacy of the war itself does not become a subject of controversy. We have to start with the assumption, obviously, that whatever administration is conducting a war wants to end it. — Henry A. Kissinger

The forms of life were volatile and that everything in the world could as easily be something else. — E.L. Doctorow

People have trouble discarding things that they could still use (functional value), that contain helpful information (informational value), and that have sentimental ties (emotional value). When these things are hard to obtain or replace (rarity), they become even harder to part with. — Marie Kondo

The Globe reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il raises money by selling fake Viagra pills. What it is about this guy? None of his missiles seem to launch. — Jay Leno

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. — George Rogers Clark

The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches. — Daniel Kahneman

They walk on endlessly. Time elongates, fractures, rewinds and replays in stuttering moments that - while they have no coherent internal logic - all seem drearily familiar and inevitable. — M.R. Carey

I'll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I'm dressed.
I wouldn't change even one spot. — Michael R. Burch

'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way. — Dan Stevens

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars. — Wendy Doniger

I didn't want to throw him in any ol' piranha tank, I wanted to throw him into a tank filled with genetically modified super-piranhas carrying tasers and bullwhips. Asshole. — James A. Hunter

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously. — Friedrich Nietzsche