Dialectically Quotes

#1. Each novel presents an opposition, which is never canceled out dialectically, of many consciousnesses, and they do not merge in the unity of an evolving spirit, just as souls and spirits do not merge in the formally polyphonic world of Dante.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#2. The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Rosa Luxemburg

#3. I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.

Tabatha Coffey

#4. 4. Q: What did the oyster say to the crab when he took his pearl? A: Don't be so shellfish!

Wally Pleasant

#5. Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

#6. Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

Richard Masur

#7. There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Aaron Sorkin

#8. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.

Terry Pratchett

#9. You," she said.
He laughed. "Who else?"
She said, "Nobody else in this world.

Marilynne Robinson

#10. You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

Ben Horowitz

#11. Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don't know or they hope.

Albert Camus

#12. So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

Jorge Luis Borges

#13. To get scared is something not in my personality.

Ram Kapoor

#14. The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

Alvin Toffler

#15. Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton