1328 2nd Quotes & Sayings

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. — Margaret Laurence

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there. — Vine Deloria Jr.

Art is what we do when we're truly alive. — Seth Godin

Juliette"
I inhale too quickly. A stifled cough is balloning in my throat.
His glassy green eyes glint in my direction.
"Are you not hungry?"
"No, thank you."
He licks his bottom lip into a smile.
"Don't confuse stupidity for bravery, love. I know you haven't eaten anything in days."
Something in my patioence snaps. "I'd rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love," I tell him.
Adam drops his fork. Warner spares him a swift glance and when he looks at my way again his eyes have hardened. He holds my gaze fo a few infinitely long seconds before he pulls a gun out of his jacket pocket. He fires. — Tahereh Mafi

Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together. — Melissa De La Cruz

Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

ego creates blind spots. — Eric Schmidt

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right. — Tamora Pierce

It's none of my business what somebody's [orientation is]. Now, when somebody makes it my business, like on gay marriage, I'm going to stand up and say I don't support gay marriage. I support marriage between men and women. — George W. Bush

I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so. — Charles Baudelaire

Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark;
Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us?
Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas,
Cut off from my family I leave my native land.
Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison,
With heated heart arouse all women's spirits.
Alas, this delicate kerchief here
Is half stained with blood, and half with tears. — Qiu Jin

The motive of man is a mystery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well. — Mark Pryor

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. — Katha Pollitt

The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged. — Walter Bagehot