Schiffrin Discourse Quotes

#1. Luck is the bastard child of Fate and Destiny.

Carroll Bryant

#2. The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.

Susan Stebbing

#3. They sat in companionable silence for a few moments after that, while the sun settled into its downward arc in the west and long shadows began to creep across the face of the city.

Scott Lynch

#4. She wasn't used to men being jealous. It was a freakishly new sensation, and not one hundred percent bad, if she was being honest. Seventy-five percent bad, sure. Twenty-five percent thrilling, in a guilty sort of way.

Kristan Higgins

#5. Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.

Rob Brezsny

#6. Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

Malcolm X

#7. Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself - only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#8. There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.

Thomas Huxley