307438 Quotes & Sayings

I have come to believe that I am a lesser authority in my own life. I have learned to distrust less-than-rational, nontechnical experiences, my own phenomenal knowledge. Because, to trust the senses - the mortal body - is to risk sounding crazy, especially, it seems. if you're a woman.
She's seeing things.
She's hearing things.
She's so sensitive.
Read: She's irrational.
And this I have internalized. Who am I to trust my body, my senses, my instincts? Who am I to know how to raise my child without consulting parenting books and up-to-date rearing studies? Who am I to try to find God outside of an institutionally approved, fully vetted doctrine? Who am I to think I can pursue impractical dreams? Who am I to be taken seriously? Who am I to think I'm capable or worthy? Who am I to...who am I? — Leigh Ann Henion

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound. — Marshall McLuhan

It didn't matter whether a thing existed or not. What mattered was the trouble caused by those who believed in its existence. — John Connolly

That's a girl's life for the rest of her days- somewhere between a lollipop and shots. — Christy Turlington

Hope your new boots are fast Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long."
"I only have to be faster than you. — Stephenie Meyer

Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don't know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad. — Kate McGahan

The last year had been an education in how little having money really mattered. A rich Vagabond was a Vagabond still, and 'twas common knowledge that King Charles, during the Interregnum, had lived without money in Holland. — Neal Stephenson

Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets. — John Berger

For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one. — Hesiod

Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all the information you could dream of. — Andy Weir

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality. — Henri Bergson

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart. — David Platt

When I got my commission, other land surveyors told me to ask for advice from my peers when I was struggling with something. — Mark Mason