Steepening Flattening Quotes

#1. The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Benito Mussolini

#2. As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

Kit Williams

#3. We need to confront honestly the issue of scale ... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.

Wendell Berry

#4. Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.

Galen Rowell

#5. Replacing a casual aquaintance with an ordinary daughter does not make a son.

Gertrude Stein

#6. You look at the modern humans that a lot of us have slept with and it is hardly a surprise if a Neanderthal maiden or two might have twinkled by the campfire light.

Bill Bryson

#7. The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter; similarly, when the fruit appears, the blossom is shown up in its turn as a false manifestation of the plant, and the fruit now emerges as the truth of it instead.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#8. Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.

Elena Ferrante

#9. I had nothing to do, nowhere specific to be and no pressing crowds to spoil my mood.

A.M. Harding

#10. That's the problem with mistakes. You can make'em in an instant. Years upon years spent tiptoeing about like a fool, then you take your eye away for a moment and ... Bang.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. I want to make something, and I want people to know I made it.

Joey Comeau

#12. I wish I'd been born with your capacity for wonder. I wouldn't mind living a shorter life if my short life could be as vivid as yours.

Sara Baume

#13. I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Sarah Palin

#14. Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

Barbara W. Tuchman