#pith

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#fantasy #malediction #biology

For it is dangerous to attach one's self to the crowd in front, and so long as each one of us is more willing to trust another than to judge for himself, we never show any judgement in the matter of living, but always a blind trust, and a mistake that has been passed on from hand to hand finally involves us and works our destruction. It is the example of other people that is our undoing; let us merely separate ourselves from the crowd, and we shall be made whole. But as it is, the populace,, defending its own iniquity, pits itself against reason. And so we see the same thing happening that happens at the elections, where, when the fickle breeze of popular favour has shifted, the very same persons who chose the praetors wonder that those praetors were chosen. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#groupthink #milgram #mob #pith #elections

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#children #civil #epithet #grant #i

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#epithet #feminine #feminist #result #revolution

What in the name of Voldy’s pasty-white rear end was that? ↗

— G. Norman Lippert

#expletives #humor #humor

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." (Letter 16, 1657) ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#conciseness #correspondence #humor #letters #pithy

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#pith #quotations #quotes #wit #imagination

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#art #done #epithet #masters #merited

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it. ↗

— Frank Warren

#pith #children

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #bible #bitterness #denial #epithet