Kody Dibble > Kody's Quotes

“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
― Edward Hirsch

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“I live to life or something like that..”
― Kody Dibble

“I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise. I have found that doing good makes no noise, and making noise does no good.”
― Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin

“You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.”
― Jordan Peterson

“You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."

"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"

"The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Emigrate or Degenerate.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school.”
― Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

“Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. “The Buddha teaches respect for all life.” “Oh.” She considered this. “Are you a Buddhist?” “No. I’m an asshole. But I keep trying.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“Knowing yourself is life's eternal homework”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

“During our endless search for the newest trends for the lowest prices, we become complicit in the forced-labor industry. Chinese manufacturers often believe they have no choice but to secretly outsource to gulags, because they cannot meet the global consumer demand for budget prices and the latest trends. Studies have shown it is precisely brands’ demands for lower prices, faster production, and fulfillment of unanticipated orders that compel factories to illegally subcontract work to places like labor camps.”
― Amelia Pang, Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods

“In general, human societies are not innovative. They are hierarchical and ritualistic. Suggestions for change are greeted with suspicion: they imply an unpleasant future variation in ritual and hierarchy: an exchange of one set of rituals for another, or perhaps for a less structured society with fewer rituals. And yet there are times when societies must change.”
― Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.”
― Plato, Gorgias