“ It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest ac… Vera Nazarian
“ When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths com… Christopher Hitchens
“ In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice… Timothy B. Tyson
“ In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.… Cormac McCarthy
“ There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, beca… Christopher Hitchens
“ Still, he was angry--that particular anger of humans defied by the persistence of nature. Cutter Nick
“ Does it stand, but not straight enough? Is there a bend in the tool? Leaning left like the Marxist-Leninist Party? To the right, like the Jan Sangh fascists? Or wobbling mindlessly in the middle, like… Rohinton Mistry
“ If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. Albert Camus
“ Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing to negotiate? His great enemy Cromwell always maintained that the king had been sway… Antonia Fraser
“ I could reply. I could tell him that a metaphor is inadequate in the face of a bloodbath. That a Platonic inclination for dying doesn't balance out the serious decision to kill. That through the ages… Mihail Sebastian
“ The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own. Grace Llewellyn
“ Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my own: the physically painful impotence and sorrow that assail me when I see a man weeping a… Krzysztof Kieslowski
“ The posters bore the words WITH THE PASSING YEARS COMES...IMPOTENCE! Magnus found himself staring at the posters with a sort of absent horror. He looked at Alec and found that Alec could not tear his… Cassandra Clare
“ It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, cowering in the darkening shadow of its… Mark O'Connell
“ The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you. Tarjei Vesaas
“ [T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catast… Slavoj Zizek
