Winston Smith Quotes

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

Winston Smith

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• I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
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• Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Long
  • Fear

• When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Paris

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
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• The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Music
  • Band
  • Sound

• It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Wall

• At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.

  

  La India
  • American
  • Listen
  • Jazz

• I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • World
  • Focused
  • Improve

• It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • True
  • Community

• I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Expectations
  • State
  • Governments

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World

• Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.

  

  Sam Keen
  • World
  • Society
  • Stop

• Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

  

  Aesop
  • Shadow

• The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

  

  Alan Guth
  • Why

• I grew up in a very urban, bohemian family where everyone was a hippie or a pacifist. It was artistically and intellectually stimulating, but they were definitely not into outdoor sports or activities.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Up
  • Family
  • Sports

• There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Time
  • Live
  • Crazy

• Falsehoods which we spurn to-dayWere the truths of long ago.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Long

• Toute loi trop souvent transgressée est mauvaise: c'est au législateur à l'abroger ou à la changer.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • True
  • Color
  • Horse

• Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Death
  • Don't Believe

• The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Joy

• If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

  

  Winston Smith
  • Death
  • Party
  • Torture