DaveDottt > DaveDottt's Quotes

“A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.”
― Diana Vreeland

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan

“You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
― Wystan Hugh Auden

“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“I Own the guy guarding me”
― Michael Jordan

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“What we don't understand we can make mean anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
― Kahlil Gibrán, Sand and Foam

“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
― Sigmund Freud

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”
― Albert Einstein

“In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory.”
― Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Short Works

“There is no weather in malls.”
― Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

“No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.”
― Terry Josephson

“Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
― J.D. Salinger

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it's like strangers and potential sexual objects.”
― Mark Driscoll

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.”
― Edward de Bono

“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”
― Chomsky, Noam

“Language is a virus from outer space”
― William S. Burroughs