Quotes · Skopia

67 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Canada✕clear

100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in the net.

1983

★ 6.1

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale · 1985

★ 5.6

You only live once, that's the motto nigga YOLO

The Motto · 2011

★ 5.6

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing · 1972

★ 5.5

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Margaret Millar

1942

★ 5.2

Song · Pop music

Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

Lovers in a Dangerous Time · 1984

★ 5.2

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life of Pi (novel) · 2001

★ 5.2

Speech · Political speech

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

John Philpot Curran

1816

★ 5.1

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet.

1919

★ 5.1

Economic literature

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

1977

★ 5.1

Sociology · Economic literature

It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society · 1958

★ 4.4

Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them they are free.

1969

★ 4.3

Novel · Dystopian fiction

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale · 1985

★ 3.9

Novel · Dystopian fiction

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale · 1985

★ 3.8

Song · Rock music

They paved paradise And put up a parking lot, With a pink hotel, A boutique, and a swinging hot spot.

Big Yellow Taxi · 1970

★ 3.7

Song · Folk · Pop

I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly

River · 1971

★ 3.7

Song · Folk music

There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in

Anthem · 1992

★ 3.7

Sociology · Economic literature

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society · 1958

★ 3.6

Leadership means making people feel good.

1984

★ 3.6

Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

2014

★ 3.6

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