Deputing Quotes

#1. Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

Nate Berkus

#3. Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

Samuel Alexander

#4. The hypocrite takes good advice as an insult.

Nouman Ali Khan

#5. Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Iris Murdoch

#6. When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

Anais Nin

#7. Thinking of jumping? (Callie)
It would make you a rich widow if I did. Care to push me? (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#8. Murphy nodded, frowning at the road ahead of her. "The reason treachery is so reveiled," she said in a careful tone of voice, "is because it usually comes from someone you didn't think could possibly do such a thing.

Jim Butcher

#9. Takes a donkey to know a donkey.

Khaled Hosseini

#10. It felt like dying, but the part that really hurt the most was coming back to life.

Skye Warren