Unobjectively Quotes

#1. It is, indeed, strange how often persons, living in other respects quite unobjectively, can suddenly become acutely objective about some specific concern of their own.

Anthony Powell

#2. Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.

Lee Gutkind

#3. ...[D]eviance is an attributed designation rather than something inherent in individuals...

Peter Conrad

#4. I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

Malala Yousafzai

#5. Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

R. Kent Hughes

#6. I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Eva Gabor

#7. I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

Neil Gaiman

#8. As an open fire in a dark room throws romance and pathos into the quiet faces at its edge, so she cast her lights and shadows around the rooms that held her,

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

William Golding

#10. The wave of insurrection passed, leaving little change in the condition of the working class. Inertia in the scales of history weighs more heavily than change. Four hundred years were to elapse before the descendants of the Maillotins seized the Bastille.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#11. We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

Erykah Badu

#12. Ray Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies.

Leo Fitzpatrick

#13. A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.

Meryl Streep

#15. The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi