Sometimes I want to be human for you.
Duke to Michel: I’m fairly certain that even if you’d struggle in a quiz against a pigeon, you are capable enough of opening doors.
One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follo...
A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.
Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen.
Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate...
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed
There is nothing to fear but to fear the fear itself
Fear is just like mist. Don’t let it disorient you from living outside God's palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction... and repeat.
It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out to protect your heart. You could deny it what it wants most, just for the sake of saving your pride or dodging another bullet.
How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?
Surely Tillie knew glitter on wrinkled cleavage was a sin.
How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?
Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.
Forgiveness is God's greatest gift
My lord said, amongst other things, that he did not propose to burden the doctor with the details of his genealogy. He consigned the doctor and all his works, severally and comprehensively described, to hell, and finished up his epic speech by a pung...
Friends don't menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?
There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect
Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to add insult to injury, was mine -- I had lent it to him) all of a sudden started to ring. Instead of turning it off, he gently inter...
That’s the best thing about friendship. It is a gift that cannot be lost. Only thrown away.
