Undialectical Quotes

#1. To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

Vladimir Lenin

#2. I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.

David Rees

#3. The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

Orrin Woodward

#4. Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Meryl Streep - I love actresses that are strong and fragile at the same time. They bring complexity to their roles.

Moran Atias

#5. You need your intelligence and your skepticism.

Thomas Moore

#6. Around you, it's what I hunger to do. I want to possess you. Entirely.

Alex Elliott

#7. Stay in Latin America, learn photography, and make all your professional mistakes in Argentina," he said, "because if you make one mistake in New York, no one will give you a second chance.

Lynsey Addario

#8. If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. For me the most valuable part of this kind of research, however, is just hanging out with the men and women on the job, listening to them, absorbing the atmosphere and attitudes of their world.

Tami Hoag

#10. Things never got tidied up the minute a couple got divorced. It seemed, from what I'd seen, that the divorce itself was the easiest part and all the real shit is what came afterward, shit that went on for years.

Karina Halle

#11. We now know that these outdated and unwarranted suggestions to eat 300 or more grams of carbohydrates each day has contributed greatly to the destruction of human health. It's not unusual for an average American now to consume 500 or 600 grams of insulin-generating, fat-storing carbohydrates daily.

Mark Sisson

#12. People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.

Lawrence Block

#13. In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other side of the story - the side that reflects poorly on the government - somehow gets lost.

Richard J. Maybury

#14. Mr Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a Professor.

J.K. Rowling

#15. If she wanted to bang every waiter and bellman on the Mexican Riviera, she would do so with dildos on. No one said her rebound(s) had to be classy.

Kate Meader