Meredith > Meredith's Quotes

“Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any different? The Pol Pot regime at least had a vision, however blurred, of an egalitarian society. We kill people in the six-figure range (at least) in order to sell Big Macs and Cadillacs to the survivors. Our forty or fifty thousand annual highway fatalities are victims, not martyrs. They died for nothing — or rather, they died for work. But work is nothing to die for.”
― Bob Black, The Abolition of Work and Other Essays

“You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.”
― Jodorowsky, Alejandro

“Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.”
― Don DeLillo

“Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?”
― Jim Harrison

“Why may the crinoline be justly regarded as a social invention? Because it enables us to see more of our friends." Sir William Hardman”
― Patricia Anderson

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
― William S. Burroughs

“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to look deeper and ask, ‘What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?’ It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not be able to master your anger.”
― Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.”
― Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive?
Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.”
― Timothy Leary

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“We, hurt by ourselves, keen
to be hurters and keen
to be hurt back deep inside.
We, like weapons laid
beside anger asleep.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency'.”
― Kurt Vonnegut , Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

“To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.”
― Karin Tidbeck, Sing

“Mostly because I’ve realized what a lame teenager I was. I was always home at the stroke of midnight; I didn’t like drinking mash; I didn’t have sex. I read books and had an inferiority complex because I was afraid to do all that other stuff. I don’t know anything about being a badass punk rocker.”
― Karin Tidbeck

“People who hurt others are the ones with the best imagination,” Rebecka said.”
― Karin Tidbeck, Jagannath

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“El amor es un intercambio de silencios.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

“Maryland cop Neill Franklin. “Number one, you’ve signed on to a dangerous job. That means that you’ve agreed to a certain amount of risk. You don’t get to start stepping on others’ rights to minimize that risk you agreed to take on. And number two, your first priority is not to protect yourself, it’s to protect those you’ve sworn to protect”
― Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

“On the wall was a Duran Duran poster on which someone had scrawled in fat red felt tip, "Take this down please."
Beneath that another hand had scrawled, "No."
Beneath that again the first hand had written, ""I insist that you take it down."
Beneath that the second hand had written, "Won't!"
Beneath that - "You're fired."
Beneath that - "Good!"
And there the matter appeared to have rested.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency