Alexandra Petri Quotes

Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.

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• Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Weird

• Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Good
  • Want
  • Nice

• I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Comedy
  • Idea
  • Resilience

• Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Easy

• My life really began when I married my husband.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Husband
  • My Life

• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Moon
  • Presidential

• I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • People
  • Great
  • Man

• It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • God
  • Best
  • Uncle

• In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Cloud

• Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Positive
  • Philosophy
  • Try

• I am hopeful that one day I will meet that right man and will have a very happy life partner.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Day

• There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Fool

• The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • World
  • Light
  • Trust

• Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Environment

• There are men of the East, he said, who are the East. There are men of a province who are that province. There are men of a valley who are that valley.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Men

• Every body in light and shade fills the surrounding air with infinite images of itself; and these, by infinite pyramids diffused in the air, represent this body throughout space and on every side.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Space
  • Air

• Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Help
  • Planning

• Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • People
  • Hope
  • Faith

• That's pretty much a tired topic. At this point, it's either you're riding with me, or you're not. I feel like this is the prime of my life and the prime of my career, and there's a lot bigger things in store for me. So when I hear that stuff, I just remember that at some point in time, every athlete who plays this game is going to hear something like that. I just take it with a grain of salt.

  

  Eddie George
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Career

• See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

  

  Douglas Adams

• For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Work
  • Art
  • Question

• Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.

  

  Alexandra Petri