David > David's Quotes

“may your blade chip and shatter”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

“no...there was time now.”
― Bradbury Ray, Dandelion Wine

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
― John Cowper Powys

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Trigger warnings are the most ridiculous, patronizing and infantilizing creations ever to come out of feminism....But feminists adore trigger warnings because it reinforces the idea that women are ruled by their emotions, are incapable of recovering from trauma and are just generally hysterical nitwits unprepared to confront adulthood and reality.”
― Janet Bloomfield