Dale Beran > Dale's Quotes

“…the excitement of doing something for the first time had passed. I laid there in the back seat looking at the moon. It was unobscured by clouds except for a few wisps here and there. (Mitch) put his arms around me, and we looked at the moon together. You think we’ll have a lot of moons like this, this month? Mitch asked. “I hope so,” I said. We turned to each other and laughed. He didn’t try to fuck me after that. We just talked for a while about music, school, our brothers, and Janice, of course. And then he drove me home.”
― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

“People should stop training radiologists now. It’s just completely obvious that within five years, deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.”
― Ajay Agrawal, Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

“The only way I knew how to live the best day ever was on an expedition.”
― Hendri Coetzee

“Some people say
Rhyming is but a sin.
Little sins are fun
So try, before you bin.”
― Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream

“The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

“I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat.”
― Tennessee Williams

“First time I think about the world.
What the world got to do with anything, I think. Then I see myself sitting there quilting tween Shug Avery and Mr ——. Us three set together gainst Tobias and his fly speck box of chocolate. For the first time in my life, I feel just right.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“The only sin is the sin of being born”
― Samuel Beckett

“It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
― Marcel Proust

“Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?”
― Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm

“What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“A true gentleman has no vices, but he allows you your own.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

“A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant”
― Dorothy Allison

“From the onset of polio in 1921 until his death, Franklin, his family, his inner circle of advisers, and teams of physicians assiduously disguised the state of his health, promoting the fantasy of a robust leader who was always in excel- lent physical condition for a man his age. Severe heart disease was not admit- ted until twenty-five years after his death, and then only as part of a new and larger cover-up to conceal other severe medical problems. These deceptions still dominate the present-day narrative of Franklin’s health, especially so in his later years.”
― Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

“The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor

“«La muerte no es más que una transición de esta vida a otra existencia donde ya no hay dolor ni angustia.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Sobre el duelo y el dolor

“When a country goes mad, it has the right to commit every horror in its own wall”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

“In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“But Eva was not dead, he was not allowed to grieve. And she was not alive, so he could not hope. Nothing.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Handling the Undead