Weird

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
--Alain de Botton

There

For what are we if not a body taking a mind for a walk, just to see what's there?
--Cory Taylor

Troubled

"Troubled" is modern Washington-speak for "I will preen and make serious faces, and then stick with my party anyway."
--Sam Wang

TK

The most difficult work of empathy may be just this: truly clearing the table of our own stuff, at least for the moment, and not begrudging the space required for another's stuff.
--Suzanne Clothier

Better

Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some.
--Margaret Atwood

Corruption

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
--Adam Smith

Ice

Donald pisses ice water.
--Roy Cohn (1984)

No Matter

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.
--Albert Einstein

Bond

I lived on this earth for over 73 years and as a trained lawyer, the most persuasive empirical evidence I have found about the existence of God is that someone must have done something to create that special bond between dog and human.
--Ed Rendell

Monsters

Regardless of their different sizes, features, and forms, monsters have one trait in common--they eat humans.
--Paul A. Trout

Psychopathic

If you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a poor family, you're likely to go to prison. If you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a rich family, you're likely to go to business school.
--George Monbiot (November 2011)

Scarce

Your time is scarce, and your technologies know it.
--James Williams

Complexity

We all carry technology in our pockets. And we're somewhat aware that it's being made by people who aren't being paid enough in unsafe conditions. But we make allowances because we've decided that it's necessary. We're sort of lying to ourselves. There's a complexity in how we accept truth.
--Olivia Wilde

Attention

Attention, not mere information, is the key bridge to politics. If you can't block information, deny it attention.
--Zeynep Tufekci

Slavery

The nastiest trick our history books have pulled is making the Civil War itself into the tragedy and not the decades of slavery before it.
--Arthur Chu

Ordinary

Ordinary is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
--Margaret Atwood

Stars

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
--Alan Moore

Not Hope

We're feeling what not having hope feels like.
--Michelle Obama

Failed

Let's face it--we are a failed species. We got very "clever" before we got remotely wise. It is a terrible waste of an amazing opportunity and a lovely planet, but the universe will move on.
--Graham Portsmouth