Updating Paradigms Quotes

#1. All I wanted - all I'd ever wanted - was just to get away. To be somewhere small where I could crowd in and feel safe, all four walls pressed around me, no one staring or pointing or yelling.

Sarah Dessen

#2. The idea that my brains could be untangled, straightened out, and thus refashioned into a state of peace and sanity was a comforting fantasy.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#3. Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. I felt something inside me rush up from tailbone to fingertips and explode in a fierce, joyful tide: that berserk rage that had nowhere to go until now.

Heather Gladney

#5. Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recognize; whereas, after a time, not having been detected and treated at the first, it becomes easy to recognize but impossible to cure. And so it is with State affairs.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#6. Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

Stephen L. Burns

#7. I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

Robert E.Lee