Nastiness famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Nastiness #Asylums #Certain
On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.
-- George Saunders

#People #Poop #Nastiness
We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.
-- Grover Norquist

#Change #Trying #Nastiness
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
-- Kate Adie

#Years #Nastiness #Nasty
He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.
-- Michael Kinsley

#Nice #Want #Nastiness
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.
-- Robert Hughes

#Art #Feelings #Nastiness
I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.
-- Andy Kindler

#Nastiness #Tvs
The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.
-- Paul McCulley

#Two #Issues #Nastiness
When you lose velocity off of your fastball, one thing that suffers is your off-speed pitches - the action on your off-speed pitches. Once you lose arm speed, it takes away rotation from your off-speed pitches. The rotation is what gives them the sharpness and the nastiness.
-- Tim Hudson

#Giving #Suffering #Nastiness

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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.
As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness... then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.
If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
You are only as big as your dreams.
But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.