Metanarratives Postmodernism Quotes

#1. If women become too much like men, men lose purpose, meaning, and inspiration in life.

John Gray

#2. Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

Laozi

#4. Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#5. The years might change our outer selves, but underneath it all we stayed the same, we kept our patterns ...

Susanna Kearsley

#6. She put her hand to her head and was about to plead a headache when she glanced at Barbra, who gave her a look that said, I wouldn't if I were you...

Elaine Coffman

#7. Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

Nora Roberts

#8. Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can't resolve, or, dissolve.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Edmund Hillary

#11. I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening.

Woody Allen