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I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
— Joni Mitchell
Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.
— Gary Larson
Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.
— Erich Fromm
I'm interested in social commentary.
— Kathryn Bigelow
It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.
— James R. Leininger
No actions, no results. Everything else is a commentary.
— Utpal Vaishnav
Nothing like cleaning the whole house while my siblings sing "O Canada" - #oldestchildsyndrome.
— Michelle N. Onuorah
- Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.
— Paulo Coelho
My commentary's hilarious, not witty.
— Richelle Mead
We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people ...
— T. Rafael Cimino
I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
— Iris Murdoch
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.
— Eleanor Catton
Her look dared me to make some kind of chivalrous commentary. I didn't, and she didn't break my nose, by way of fair exchange.
— Jim Butcher
Todd, this is almost like your commentary! Dizzying!
— Josh Mathews
A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.
— Colin Quinn
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
— James Baldwin
A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
— Alastair Reynolds
When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.
— Erri De Luca
Success is goals, everything else is commentary.
— Brian Tracy
... does not need Facebook, Twitter and Stumble Upon. She is a whole social media network all by herself.
— Pandora Poikilos
After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
— Yasmina Reza
I have little tolerance for noise and stupidity.
— Andrew J. Robinson
Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.
— George Eliot
I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.
— Joe Rogan
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— Vladimir Nabokov
War is politics for everyone but the warrior.
— Tiffany Madison
America isn't a country; it's a marketplace. The more you sell, the more at home you'll feel.
— Iimani David
The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.
— Susan Stewart
He happy hum of humanity.
— Arthur C. Clarke
To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.
— Michael Owen
Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.
— David Sloan Wilson
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
— Thucydides
Their conversation was a flow of erudite commentary, moist with the syrup of a superior education. She
— Gail Carriger
Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.
— Harold Holzer
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
— John Shirley
That which is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Law. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn.
— Rabbi Hillel
No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
— Anthony Bourdain
She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out
— Saira Viola
History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
People only need the right amount of bullshit for things to start exploding. Sad, but it's human nature.
— Gabbo De La Parra
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine ... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
— Thomas Brooks
Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile.
— Spider Robinson
God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.-Commentary on Psalm 119 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Bernie Saunders is like a fly buzzing around a bowl of rotten fruit. Long hail this fly!
— Marge Simon
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
— Susan Sontag
I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
— Damian Marley
If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out.And the journey starts NOW. — Jasper Fforde
You don't have to comment on every boring thing you do." I said. "This isn't Olympic curling. You're just unpacking a suitcase.
— Maria Semple
You are what you read.
— Nancy Petralia
Social proof is a flame to the human mind moth, and it leaves a fire trail of destruction across the path of enough.
— Will Jelbert
The Expositor's Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1976. Bruce, F. F. The Epistle to the Galatians. Grand
— Paul D. Weaver
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
— Shel Silverstein
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ... (Bk2:3)
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
— Benjamin Cardozo
The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
— Richie Benaud
Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.
— Laura Schlessinger
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
— Elbert Hubbard
I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.
— Melanie Griffith
Success equals goals; all else is commentary. — Brian Tracy
I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.
— Steven Pressfield
If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.
— Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.
— Sophie Tucker
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, 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
What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study.
— Hillel The Elder
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
— Oscar Robertson
I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.
— Joan Fontcuberta
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.
— Iveta Cherneva
If the sale of flesh could be made as easily as the sale of spiritual exemption, the prescience of a dedicated businessman might be well preserved.
— Michelle Franklin
A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.
— Eric Schlosser
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
— Nikolai Gogol
If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.
— Ronald Knox
Just because all the rats are gone doesn't mean I trust the rattlesnake that got rid of them.
— John Steiner
It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
— Sherman Alexie
