Idealist Persuasion Quotes

#1. Now, please don't tell me you don't care about how you look and that there's more to you than your appearance. There are two kinds of people in this world : people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Rabih Alameddine

#2. I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.

Rose McGowan

#3. We've tried to set her straight, but you don't set that woman anywhere. She's like the value of pi. She just is.

Lisa Wingate

#4. It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Alberto Manguel

#5. Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]

William O. Douglas

#6. Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

Michelle Tea

#7. If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.

Roy Bennett

#8. Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

Daniel Schacter

#9. The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

George Steiner

#10. Someone once said, that the internet is the bathroom wall of the 21 century. And that appears to be true, especially since Bobrick transitioned to plastic laminates removing the opportunity to defame others behind those closed doors.

Delia J. Colvin

#11. Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Aristotle.