"Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent."

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Frantz Fanon

#Choices Quotes #Weapons Quotes #Belief Quotes

“A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.”
“So, if people didnâ€™t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea â€“ or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we donâ€™t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe FernÃ¡ndez-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.”
“Women are never at ease when they have ideas.”
“We went to Comic-Con and there were people dressed up as the characters. There's a whole canon of Ninjago history that I didn't even know about until the process of making the movie had started. Especially at Comic-Con, I realized that people really, really care about this, and I hope they like it because it's meaningful to them. It did actually change my feelings about it.”
“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.”
“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”
“When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.”
“Do you really think he was flirting with me?" "Let's see. He gave you candy you hate - I saw your face - and a CD of songs..." He looks at the CD. "All of these are, like, twenty years old at least. Figures. Oh, and he groped your face. Sounds like true love to me.”

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