Ontological Security Quotes

#1. [Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security of modern identity and hence to provoke the possibility of otherness through exposition of the cultural difference concealed by, and within, the order of modern rationalism.

Nicholas Gane

#2. He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

Confucius

#3. Gosh, it was nice talking to you, but I've got a lot of things I'd rather be doing. Like sticking my hand in the garbage disposal.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#4. Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

Gary Gygax

#5. The way of kings / Brandon Sanderson. - 1st ed. p. cm. "A Tom Doherty Associates book." ISBN 978-1-4299-9280-0 (e-book) I. Title. PS3619.A533W375 2010 813'.6 - dc22 2010034369

Brandon Sanderson

#6. Oined the circle and prayed with these men [homeless] who seemed on the outside to have nothing to give but had been giving, without our knowing it, the most precious gift of all: compassion.

Ron Hall

#7. they knew also that the Communist underground was directed from Moscow and served chiefly as an espionage source for the Russians.*

William L. Shirer

#8. If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

Lance Armstrong

#9. The more mature we are, the more receptive we are.

Marianne Williamson

#10. It is what we sow into people that they become

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Every one of them had been somebody's son, somebody's friend. Grant rubbed his hands over his face and drew in a long breath, letting it out in a sigh. Perhaps Tallis did go mad, poor bastard. I hate this more

Anne Perry

#12. You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself.

Terry Pratchett

#13. I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I don't know why.

Louis Garrel

#14. Very rapidly now Freddie realised that what he had been wishing for was a partner to share the perils of this enterprise which he had so rashly undertaken. In fact, not so much to share them as to take them off his shoulders altogether.

P.G. Wodehouse