Curtis Baldwin
- Goals
From a very early age in life, I swore that I would never let anyone keep me from reaching my goals or becoming the person I wanted to be. I kept that promise to myself until I became the person that was getting in my way.
Alexander Hamilton
- The Federalist Papers
For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Emmanuel Jimenez
- Words
Words. We have multiple types of them, some intricate, some general, some definitive. But there are certain things that our limited vocabulary cannot express. Words can be used to describe feelings, but that's all words can do; describe. You see, feelings are hard to express. We often use metaphors, because it is hard to explicitly state one's feelings. We rely on our metaphorical communication to express them, because feelings are much more than words.
me, the author
- For the achievement
Don't mind me, I just want the achievement for adding a quote. Hopefully this quote isn't too hard to type. Please rate this quote well, and have a good day.
DC Comics
- Batman
If Clark wanted to, he could use his superspeed and squish me into the cement. But I know how he thinks. Even more than the Kryptonite, he's got one big weakness. Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person... and deep down, I'm not.
Curtis Baldwin
- Bias
I have come to realize that the most unbiased person in any situation is the most biased person. You can always trust a biased person to be biased in the exact way you know they will be. An unbiased person can never be truly impartial and will always try to sneak their own opinion into matters.
Anonymous
- Life
I have recently thought about dying. I thought I might be better off if I spared myself from the pain of life. Then I remembered that I have written many many quotes on here, and some of them have gotten a four star rating. That means they made some people happy, and if I was dead, I could never make anyone happy again, including myself.
Dave Rondot
- Turbo Encabulator
The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.
Jean Guerrero
- article in The Guardian; Trump's re–election strategy is torn from white supremacist playbooks
President Trump's re-election strategy consists of convincing enough Americans that anyone who supports racial equality wants to destroy the US, while at the same time insisting that systemic racism is not real but rather a figment of the left's imagination. It's a self-contradictory strategy only a cult leader could sustain, and it comes straight from the playbook of white supremacist propaganda.
Elie Mystal
- The Nation article; “The Deaths of 150,000 Americans are on Trump’s Hands
Everybody involved in allowing people to die from Covid-19 will get away with it, because being a bad person is not illegal. Magical thinking is not illegal. Being a callous, know-nothing, anti-science, willfully ignorant Trump sycophant is not illegal. There will never be justice for those who have died from the neglect of the Trump administration. The people responsible for these deaths are monsters. The least we can do is start treating them as such.
Lena Dunham
- On Donald Trump
Millennials overwhelmingly voted against Trump. Our generation says no, as do first-time voters, to what this man and his presidency represent. We reject, wholesale, his brand of hatred and bigotry. We are the generation with the strongest and most vast understanding of identity politics yet. We recognize intersections and contradictions and want to make room for them in people and in government. America will not be great until it fulfills its promise of liberty and justice for all.
Decim
- Death Parade
Life really is a mysterious thing. Each and every life spins its own, totally separate tale, yet they become intricately entwined in each other. And no one knows how they will end up.
Jack Kerouac
- Dharma Bums
The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water. Most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.
Anonymous
- Pangrams
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. My girl wove six dozen plaid jackets before she quit. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. The five boxing wizards jump quickly. Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Skin in the game - Hidden asymmetries in daily life
Many problems in society come from the interventions of people who sell complicated solutions because that's what their position and training invite them to do. There is absolutely no gain for someone in such a position to propose something simple: you are rewarded for perception, not results. Meanwhile, they pay no price for the side effects that grow nonlinearly with such complications.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Skin in the game - Hidden asymmetries in daily life
Society doesn't evolve by consensus, voting, majority, committees, verbose meetings, academic conferences, tea and cucumber sandwiches, or polling; only a few people suffice to disproportionately move the needle. All one needs is an asymmetric rule somewhere - and someone with soul in the game. And asymmetry is present in about everything.
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
- Perfect Things
It's true that we're losing time every day, all the time, until one day it's all gone. But you're gaining it too. Every second. Perfect moments, one after the other, until, by the end, you have your whole life.
Dream SMP
- Ranboo
Maybe the way to stop history from repeating itself is to let it happen, because history is gonna repeat itself. There's nothing we can do - but what we can do is make slight differences so that there's a better outcome this time.
The Weekend
- The morning
From the morning to the evening. Complaints from the tenants. Got the walls kicking like they're six months pregnant. Drinking Alize with our cereal for breakfast. Girls calling cabs at dawn quarter to seven. Sky's getting cold, we're flying from the north. Rocking with our city like a sold out show.
P.L. Travers
- Saving Mr. Banks
Because these books simply do not lend themselves to chirping and prancing. No, it's certainly not a musical. Now, where is Mr. Disney? I should so much like to get this started and finished as briskly as is humanly possible.
