4103587435 Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose. — Ursula Goodenough

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. — Tillie Olsen

Power,' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'. — Shuli Barzilai

Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning - and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better not to know the lyrics to your life. — Douglas Coupland

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow. — Storm Jameson

He was the first important person in my life to die, and when he did, it was the first time I realized that life is not fair or safe or even ours to own. I miss him. — Amy Poehler

We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough — Stephen Chbosky

So this Logan guy, is he giving you a hard time about the wedding?"
"He's blackmailing me."
Kevin jumped to his feet so fast, she sat back in her chair. "He's a dead man. I'm going to kick his ass so bad he won't even be able to cry for his mommy. Gonna fold him up like a napkin."
His loyalty warmed her heart, even as embarrassment warmed her cheeks. "It's ... not what you're thinking."
"I'm thinking by the time I'm done pounding on his face, even dogs will be afraid of him. — Shannon Stacey

O farmer, strong farmer!
You can spend at the fair,
But your face you must turn
To your crops and your care — Padraic Colum

When we care, we share. — Jonah Berger

I dont want to be anybody's mother. Im not done being a kid myself.Im way to young and so are you — Angela Johnson

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that. — Ellie Goulding