Sean > Sean's Quotes

“What’s clear is that no good can come from pretending that the people who participate in prostitution don’t exist.”
― Anonymous

“Good enough" is what Spotify should be afraid of.”
― Anonymous

“Yes, this cup knows the difference between Gatorade Cool Blue and Glacier Freeze.”
― Anonymous

“In fact, to the extent that we feel competent, our fears of the potential for failure are not related to our procrastination.”
― Anonymous

“I think the argument that, when a cell senses danger, it changes its metabolism to protect itself makes a lot of sense — and it makes a lot of sense with what we see in autism.”
― Anonymous

“Apply it with a computer' isn't a valid software patent step”
― Anonymous

“In the study, researchers injected a gene called Tbx18 into the pigs’ hearts. This gene, which is also found in humans, reprogrammed a small number of heart-muscle cells into cells that emit electrical impulses and drive the beating of the heart.”
― Anonymous

“I have considered every logical alternative.” Izin’s voice was its usual synthesized calmness, but I sensed his helplessness. “Then find an illogical alternative!” “Illogical thinking?” “Yes!” Izin’s bulbous eyes blinked slowly. “I will try to think more like you, Captain.” “That’s the spirit!” I patted Izin’s shoulder encouragingly. “You’ve got eighteen hours.”
― Stephen Renneberg, The Antaran Codex

“It’ll be your loss, Ethan. Day’ll come, when he’s grown and it’s too late, that you’d give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy. To hold him. Read a book to him. Throw a ball with a person in whose eyes you can do no wrong. He doesn’t see your failings yet. He looks at you with pure love and it won’t last, so you revel in it while it’s here.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“An email conversation uncovered in the Wikileaks dump of the Sony Hack earlier this week shows that Affleck asked the producers of PBS' Finding Your Roots series to scrub that ugly detail of his family history. The series, hosted by African-American studies professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., traces the family history of famous Americans who appear on the show”
― Anonymous

“I have waited a long time for William Gibson's vision of cyberspace to become real. It became real today for me in that room. – John Biggs East Coast Editor at TechCrunc”
― Anonymous

“Currently, only one in four of India's more than 1.2 billion citizens has uninterrupted electricity”
― Anonymous

“We cannot modify anything here, everything is built up. The monkeys, they destroy all the wires and eat all the wires”
― Anonymous

“Before the new night could begin, the old day had to end, and it was grinding slowly to a halt. Birds were singing, quietly. Rabbits were mating, tiredly. People were doing their work, half-heartedly.”
― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard

“Let it flow over and through you, occupying your thoughts as it must, and then let it run away.”
― Garrett Robinson, Nightblade

“Loren’s hand went to the black, velvety fabric, stroking it gently. “This was a gift,” she said softly. “Maybe that pink dress was, too,” said Gem. “Or maybe she only bought that dress from coin what she earned. Earned doing things you’d never do, that you’d think were beneath you. I know many pretty girls with fine dresses what pay for those dresses with the failings of rich men.”
― Garrett Robinson, Nightblade

“We took care of it,” Jessie said. “And we’ll take care of this, too.” “Not without me,” he said. “I’m not letting you girls walk into an ambush—” “It’s not an ambush if you know it’s coming,” I told him, “and we’re not girls. We’re federal agents.”
― Craig Schaefer, Harmony Black

“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it. If you don’t understand this, you will try to figure out which of the many things the voice says is really you. People go through so many changes in the name of “trying to find myself.” They want to discover which of these voices, which of these aspects of their personality, is who they really are. The answer is simple: none of them. If”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
― Seneca

“Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: Tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as 'I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world'.

Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to new striving and suffering. And not merely 'some day': now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over. For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.”
― Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World

“Being protective makes him understand why he has to stay, and without a word, he kisses his sleeping brother and lies back down on his rags.”
― L.E. Waters, Infinite Sacrifice

“I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to AIDS, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no air-conditioning, a president who has stood in line at the clinic, at the DMV, at the welfare office, and has been unemployed and laid off and sexually harassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown. Always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker. Always a liar, always a thief, and never caught.”
― Zoe Leonard

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

“Stories. They don’t mean much to people who don’t listen. But to some, they mean everything.”
― Pirateaba, Fae and Fare

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”
― Pravin Lal

“Jeeze. Save a [Princess] and suddenly everyone’s your friend.”
― Pirateaba, The General of Izril

“Steel? Hah! If you’d duel us, bring cold iron and star metal! Bring blades forged of magic and legend! And if you thrust, do it with your heart in your hands, for we’ll pluck it out if you miss!”
― Pirateaba, Rains of Liscor

“It was a hat—a nice red toque. Toques need to be red, you see. Just like red barns, they’re just something that is.”
― CasualFarmer, Beware of Chicken