Bad Associations Quotes

#1. ...your name will remain forever in the memory of people. However, it will not be a good memory. Your name will become a household name in all languages, and it will only cause bad associations in humans.

Viktor Shel

#2. In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Timothy Keller

#3. I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.

Bauvard

#4. This time they're making sure they can hold what they take: conquest is always easier than subjugation.

Yoon Ha Lee

#5. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.

George R R Martin

#6. It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#7. The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Corrie Ten Boom

#8. The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

Peter D. Mitchell

#9. All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how any people surround us. And then, we meet someone who seems to understand. She smiles, and for a moment the loneliness disappears.

Helene Wecker

#10. I'm usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.

Annie Parisse

#11. Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation ...

Britta Phillips

#12. I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.

Robert Barry

#13. Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair, with very intelligent, cautious eyes, with a greedy mouth. Politely, the host and the guest greeted one another.

Hermann Hesse

#14. A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.

Charles Darwin

#15. Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

Philip K. Dick

#16. Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Tom Lehrer

#17. Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have a choice?

Bernard Cornwell

#18. Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

H.L. Mencken