Best Jid Quotes

#1. When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Build a tangled bank.

Steven Johnson

#3. What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.

Slavoj Zizek

#4. I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

John Pomfret

#5. It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.

Sean MacBride

#6. The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

Pearl Bailey

#7. There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

Art Donovan

#8. Concern for Others Loophole: We tell ourselves that we're acting out of consideration for others and making generous, unselfish decisions. Or we decide we must do something in order to fit into a social situation.

Gretchen Rubin

#9. There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

Sam Harris

#10. Shut the fuck up." I turn to look at the minister because I know he heard me. "Sorry.

Georgia Cates

#11. The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

Joan Larkin

#13. He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

Rachel Joyce

#14. You know how it's crazy embarrassing to watch a movie with your parents when a steamy love scene comes on? You basically wish the couch cushions would swallow you and suddenly the condition of your nail beds is far more interesting than what's on the screen?

Jen Malone