Koedu Quotes

#1. The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

Quentin Crisp

#3. Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#4. Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

John Osborne

#5. The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Epictetus

#6. Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don't lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

Joel Greenblatt

#7. I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

Rashida Jones

#8. We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

James Earl Jones

#10. I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.

John Derbyshire

#11. We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

Michael Hutchence

#12. I'm always honest.

Victoria Azarenka

#13. All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be something he said casually in conversation.

Joss Whedon

#14. We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been damaged.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#15. I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.

Christina Rossetti