Being Retarded Quotes

#1. People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

Travis Luedke

#2. Beautiful isn't something you become. It's something you realize you are.

Vironika Tugaleva

#3. Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

Dustin Hoffman

#4. Waited for my brother and didn't talk to anybody and nobody talked to her, because she'd always been one of those quiet, semi-retarded girls who you couldn't talk to without being dragged into a whirlpool of dumb stories.

Junot Diaz

#5. This one was Justin Bieber. Justin's teeth had been blacked out, and someone had added a Notzi swat-sticker tattoo to one cheek.

Stephen King

#6. Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.

Brian Eno

#7. You're not always able to choose.

Anatoly Chubais

#8. It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions.

John Stuart Mill

#9. There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter's stature who dare raise their voices - and with such force - against the menace of U.S. and the unrestricted use of its power. Pinter's voice is an unceasing thunder.

Gioconda Belli

#10. Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

Elisabeth Elliot

#11. He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.

Walter Kirn

#12. Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.

Margaret Atwood

#13. Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?

Chris Rock

#14. It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#15. Was being greeted by a silent, smiling band of bald, retarded children.

Dan Simmons

#16. I rarely interacted much with anyone back then who wasn't retarded. When I did, it struck me how pompous and impatient they were, always measuring their words, twisting things around. Everybody was so obsessed with being understood. It made me sick.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#17. I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#18. I seem to be good at speaking the politicians' language," Szilard said. "Apparently there's an advantage around here to being mildly socially retarded, and that's the Special Forces for sure.

John Scalzi

#19. It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.

Nachman Of Breslov

#20. I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

Richard Linklater

#21. I surround myself with authentic and loving people who share my journey of personal growth and awakening.

Cheryl Richardson