Unreduceable Quotes

#1. [Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

Robert Burns

#2. It was a shrine. Josie hadn't thought to do that. She had no shrine, no candles. She only knew how to kill the thing she loved

Janet Fitch

#3. We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.

Rachel Maddow

#4. Who are you when no one is watching?

Anonymous

#5. The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#6. Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

Sheryl Crow

#7. And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name.

Seneca.

#8. Character is contagious.

Wayde Goodall

#9. The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

William James

#10. There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

Octavio Paz