15km Quotes & Sayings

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams. — Pat Conroy

He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him. — John Banville

But the important thing is if there's no adversity or challenges in life, then how can you grow, right? You need to embrace yourself entirely. Have some confidence. Only then can you grow. Only then will you be happy. — Jason W Chan

The hatred of the West and of everything that it represents arises not because its spirit is really foreign to the peoples of the third world, nor because they are really opposed to the "progress" that we embody, but because the competitive spirit is as familiar to them as it is to ourselves. Far from turning away from the West, they cannot prevent themselves from imitating it, from adopting its values without admitting it to themselves. They are no less consumed than we are by the ideology of individual and collective success. — Rene Girard

In Juan Aldama, Zacatecas, no one had ever seen a "real" Jew before. Certainly not a living one! They were thought to be mythical like unicorns or gremlins or... La Llorona! Kids would poke and curse me. They would feel the top of my head... to see if I was sprouting horns... like Satan... like the Devil. Didn't they know? I was the new Jesus! — Jose N. Harris

Make your company stock a consumer product. When consumers buy stock in your company, they'll never buy a competitive product. You've linked their financial future to yours. — Faith Popcorn

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together. — Josiah Warren

When you were a Goth, it was important to at least imply the possibility you might burst into flames in direct sunlight. — Joe Hill

Which is why God has erected such a firewall between the living and the dead: because the predead always distort whatever the postalive tell them. Jesus or Mohammad or Siddharta, whenever any dead person has come back to offer some banal bit of advice, the living recipient misinterprets every word of it. — Chuck Palahniuk

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering. — Illeana Douglas

Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della — Abbi Glines

If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you'll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that's how it should be; we're not robots. — Shawnda Currie

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day. — Agatha Christie