Lin Manuel Miranda
- In the Heights
I am Usnavi and you probably never heard my name, reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated. Exacerbated by the fact that my syntax is highly complicated cause I immigrated from the single greatest little place in the Caribbean, Dominican Republic, I love it. Jesus, I'm jealous of it, and beyond that ever since my folks passed on, I haven't gone back. God damn, I gotta get on that.
Lin Manuel Miranda
- In The Heights
Lights up on Washington Heights, up at the break of day, I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away. Pop the grate at the crack of dawn, sing while I wipe down the awning. Hey y'all, good morning.
brooklyn 99
- I bet you couldn't
I bet you couldn't make a sentence without the letter "A." You thought you did something here didn't you? Well sorry to burst your bubble, but numerous sentences could be constructed without employing the first letter of the English lexicon.
Anonymous
- I cut my finger.
Earlier today, I cut my finger deeply on the blade of a tape dispenser. It wouldn't stop bleeding for 10 minutes. My mom, who's a doctor, had to help patch me up. Right now, I am typing to see if having a thick band-aid on my right middle finger affects my typing speed and accuracy. Wish me luck.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Antifragile
Further, the random element in trial and error is not quite random, if it is carried out rationally, using error as a source of information. If every trial provides you with information about what does not work, you start zooming in on a solution - so every attempt becomes more valuable, more like an expense than an error. And of course you make discoveries along the way.
Shane Brown
Think about it: If you're suffering from dehydration and go to the hospital, what happens? They hook you up to a glucose drip, which is essentially sugar and water. Slurpees are, essentially, sugar and water. That makes Slurpees medicine in my book, and if you're gonna take medicine, it might as well be wild cherry flavored, no?
Karl Marks
- The Communist Manifesto
Further, as we have already seen, entire sections of the ruling classes are, by the advance of industry, precipitated into the proletariat, or are at least threatened in their conditions of existence. These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.
Karl Marks
- The Communist Manifesto
All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interests of minorities. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interests of the immense majority. The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air.
Karl Marks
- The Communist Manifesto
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
leftbyleftwest
- Quotes on quotes
Do you ever read a quote on this website and realize it's just a bad opinion written with eloquence? My younger self would be amazed by the profound wisdom contained in these quotes, while my current self just rolls my eyes and keeps on typing.
Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs
Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
A 17-year-old white, American female
- To Be Engaged at 16
I haven't got a good way to articulate my predicament, though it's very real. My best friend (whom I love more than anybody else) is a 16-year-old second-generation Muslim female. She's soon to be engaged. I can't possibly convey the pain I feel. I know it's unfair. She's been abused her entire life, has an eating disorder, life-long depression and is aromantic and asexual. And I know nobody can possibly love her or take better care of her than I would. How dare he try to take her away from me?
Unknown
- A Nonsense Verse
One bright day in the middle of night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. Deaf policeman heard the noise - came and killed the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man... He saw it too...
some guy called Noyj
- A mysterious composition of words that sounds like a quote
Dang man, I can't believe I will be the only person to ever read this. I'm feeling kind of sad right now. I just can't wait to move out of this house. A change of environment would be a change of mind for me: a clean slate. No more childhood emotions. Time for adulthood...
Su Wang
- (1969)
I think I ought to caution you, Mrs. Benet. There's a rumor going around town that you and I are carrying on a flirtation." "Now isn't that the limit! ... the way people talk? It's only yesterday I thought of that rumor, Mr. McKay. My very best friend swore on my Holy Bible never to tell a living soul... hahaha." "What're you after, Mrs. Benet? You're hoping your husband will challenge me to a duel, so I can kill him for you? Maybe you forgot... am not a gentleman.
Rylan Messenger
- People Who Can't Be Helped
I used to wonder why there are people in the world who think a certain way. People who manipulate others. People who lie. People who hurt other people. Why do they do it? What makes them think it's okay? I used to spend a long time thinking about this. It took me years before I realized that there are just some people who can't be helped.
Jawaharlal Nehru
- The Hardest Lesson
Of the many hard lessons that I had learned, the hardest and the most painful now faced me: that it is not possible in any vital matter to rely on anyone. One must journey through life alone; to rely on others is to invite heartbreak.
@loresjoberg
You can give a man a fish and then teach him how to fish afterward, you know. And it's a lot easier for a person to learn how to fish when he is not starving.
Anonymous
- I hate bittersweet endings.
If I were to know my fate is to lose, I would lose without trying. I'd never make the sacrifices to win if the ending was meaningless. However, I don't know what my fate is, so I'll keep on trying.
Fredrick Backman
- A Man Called Ove
He believed so strongly in things: justice and fair play and hard work and a world where right just had to be right. Not so one could get a medal or a diploma or a slap on the back for it, but just because that was how it was supposed to be. Not many men of his kind were made anymore, Sonja had understood. So she was holding on to this one.
