Plausibly Better Quotes

#1. God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

Georges Bernanos

#2. Love is a dramatic driving force, the most powerful potion that we drink willingly.

Balroop Singh

#3. You're this gorgeous catastrophe. You're unreal.

Sarah Harian

#4. Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

Dalton Trumbo

#5. The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

Doris Lessing

#6. And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one's trundle-bed;
So shut your eyes while Mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock on the misty sea.

Eugene Field

#7. She considered herself too smart to believe in things she had no evidence for, and that behaved in ways that violated every principle she'd ever observed or heard plausibly spoken about. And she considered herself too tough-minded to believe in things just because they made her feel better.

Lev Grossman

#8. Life is too short to listen to reason.

Marty Rubin

#9. Life ... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Douglas Adams

#10. Nurse: "Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends".

Tutor: "And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain.

Euripides

#11. Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

Bob Dylan

#12. For me, open source is a moral thing.

Matt Mullenweg