Dismissable Offence Quotes

#1. I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. There hasn't been a more effeminate Jew in the closet since Anne Frank.

Greg Giraldo

#4. The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. Of course, we need stories. There's a reason "42" is not a satisfying answer to life, the universe, and everything. Structure alone doesn't quench our existential thirst. We want meaning. And for our brains, meaning comes in the form of stories.

Amanda Gefter

#6. Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously...

Thomas Bernhard

#7. The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Denis Waitley

#8. Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

Kate Millett

#9. Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.

Robert Goolrick

#10. Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

Jennifer Lee Carrell