Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993
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The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878