Quotes of: Silly-thing Keyword

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

Xavier Niel

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

Yael Stone

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Ziggy Marley

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

Courtney Love

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.

Tracy Anderson

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

Zainab Salbi

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

Eason Jordan

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

Hamid Karzai

What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, gir...

Full Frontal Feminism

It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of...

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gn...

The Good Lord Bird

Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them for our attention; things expose themselves to the sun or retreat among the shadows, shouting ...

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

[...] it would be false to say that because we're on the side of justice, we can go ahead and destroy our opponents and the world will be at peace. [...] Now, I know that there are such things as good and evil in the world, and that people do good th...

Starting Point: 1979-1996

One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only . Am I the only one who had this queer deep sense as a kid? -- that everything exterior to m...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Saying something is “meant to be” is a cop out. It’s a way for people to deal when they screw up or when life hands them a bowl of shit stew. The things that are meant to be are the things we can’t control, the things we don’t cause, the th...

The Song of David

If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we h...

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and t...

Looking for Alaska

What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, every month, every year? Let me get you started. My one thing is this, ‘I'm one day closer...’ One day closer to a goal, an outcome, or the result...

The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians,...

Robert Anton Wilson

You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't...

Stephen Chbosky