Marcusse Construction Quotes

#1. Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Ayn Rand

#2. When he is away from her, he tries to conjure up her face. He closes his eyes, but the magic eludes him. When they are together he watches, learning her features, her gestures. Still, afterwards, he cannot make it happen. It is as though when she does she takes everything of herself with her.

Aminatta Forna

#3. [O]nce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.

Tim Minchin

#4. Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Blaise Pascal

#5. Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.

Kevin Smith

#6. The Christian life is a school of love and nobody graduates from it before the end of his life.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

Veronica Roth

#8. She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.

Julie Metz