Insightful Quotes

You dare quarrel with me Doerwyne?She wrinkled her nose. It's not quarreling to express an opinion'Women don't have opinions.Then I must be a man, because I have plenty.

~ Georgia Fox

The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.

~ Kij Johnson

Friendship Quote of the Week:Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together…Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President and World Leader

~ Woodrow Wilson

Never place someone so high on a pedestal that if they should fall... you get crushed.

~ Mark W. Boyer

I have a feeling that you're riding for some terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind. This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit the bottom. He just keeps falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started...

~ J.d. Salinger

I fail to remember, the mind has fuses.

~ B.s. Johnson

Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosopher to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient interest in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so helplessly lost to all honourable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would rather not see whales than otherwise. But all in vain; those young Platonists have a notion that their vision is imperfect; they are short-sighted; what us, then, to strain the visual nerve? They have left their opera glasses at home.

~ Herman Melville

She had married him in order to be safe from the chaos. He had married her, she now understood, for the same reason. They were the last two people on earth who could make anyone safe from anything.

~ Kate Atkinson

Everything's impossible until somebody does it.

~ Bruce Wayne

Strange... The more I befriend my solitude, the more people desire my company.

~ Frank F. Gelat

The quest for power is strange in that, once the quest has begun, the destination always seems to shift ever further away. What power one has is never enough; whatever happiness one had turns to bitterness.

~ Sonya Hartnett

In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

~ Sonya Hartnett

The north of peacebuilding is best articulated as finding our way toward becoming and being local and global human communities characterized by respect, dignity, fairness, cooperation, and the nonviolent resolution of conflict. To understand this north, to read such a compass, requires that we recognize and develop our moral imagination far more intentionally.

~ John Paul Lederach

We need a politician who hates politics.

~ Will Adolphy

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Change happens internally. That's where books go too. Therein lies the power.

~ Nina Joshi Ramsey

A final dirty joke.Another human punch line

~ Markus Zusak

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?No sir.That bothers me.

~ Joe R. Lansdale

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

~ Jane Austen

When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.

~ Wally Lamb

It’s funny, isn’t it?” he said, something odd in his voice. “It’s funny how some people show they love people with dramatic proclamations and huge displays and romantic gestures…but for some people, it’s in the small things. Like the small things you do for him.

~ Cole Mccade

The world will burn for a hundred years. Fire will consume the things we made from wood and plastic and rubber and cloth, then water and wind and time will chew the stone and steel into dust. How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they needed was Mother Nature and time.

~ Rick Yancey

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

~ Francis Beaumont

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so completely that we cannot even truly predict where is will lead us.

~ R.a. Salvatore

He tried to be a good man, to do the right things, to make the world a little better than it had been before he had put his stamp upon it. You could be generous with the love you gave, with the care you took with others. You could follow all the command- ments that made sense to you and still the world could sideswipe you. There was no cause and effect. There was no karma. The truth was that he wasn't so sure he understood how the world worked anymore.

~ Caroline Leavitt

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so competent that we cannot even truly predict where is will lead us.

~ R.a. Salvatore

We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Remember: In poetry, each word is like a loaded gun; very heavy, and full of intent

~ Amber Drappier

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

~ Various

He twirled a finger, the universal symbol for roll down your window -- universal despite the fact that no one had manually rolled down a window in twenty years.

~ Daryl Gregory

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners ...

~ Jasper Fforde

Lowell’s best friend was the heroically moustached art director of a tobacco magazine that published in the same building where Lowell worked at plumbing. His name was Harry Balmer, and despite the evidence of his moustache he was nervous, compulsive, and wracked with small fears. He looked his best from across a wide room; the closer you got to him, the more he seemed to fall apart into a mass of twitches and gnawed finernails and the clearer it became that this big, smart-looking moustache was a kind of bush he was trying to hide behind.

~ L.j. Davis

Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

~ Jane Austen

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge

~ Jane Austen

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

A loner by nature and an introvert... i am a twinkling star, burning bright amidst a cloudless night. As such, i tend to fade in and out of people's lives. This aspect of me is often misunderstood as rejection or a lack of love and caring. In reality, the only way i can survive as an introvert, is to drop from the sky, from time-to-time, recharging within the energizing landscape of my inner-universe. To love me, is to let me me have the space i need to illuminate the sky. I can't be taken hostage or held captive. Inner-light is what gives my star its twinkle.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

You want what you can’t have. Again, is it worth it? Does it hurt your heart or does it hurt your balls?”~ grandpa RayExcerpt From: Boheme, Kade. “Trouble & the Wallflower Kade Boehme, 2014-03-03T20:38:08+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

~ Kade Boehme

Along with the concept of American Dream runs the notion that every man and woman is entitled to an opinion and to one vote, no matter how ridiculous that opinion might be or how uninformed the vote. It could be that the Borderer Presbyterian tradition of stand up and say your rightful piece contributed to the American notion that our gut-level but uninformed opinions are some sort of unvarnished foundational political truths. I have been told that this is because we redneck working-class Scots Irish suffer from what psychiatrists call no insight.Consequently, we will never agree with anyone outside our zone of ignorance because our belligerent Borderer pride insists on the right to be dangerously wrong about everything while telling those who are more educated to bite my ass!

~ Joe Bageant