49202 Quotes & Sayings

And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that's my opinion, expressed as politely as possible. — David Gaider

Compromise Lesson One: Pull a dick move, and your dick gets denied. Every woman knew that, and now, so did the vampire sitting next to me. — Jeaniene Frost

Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes. — Brian O'Driscoll

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting. — Russell Smith

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight; but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of washing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice. — Charlotte Bronte

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go? — Aidan Chambers

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts. — Lauryn Hill

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Memory is part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our heart pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work, too: it keeps us who we are. It is the influence that keeps us from flying off into separate pieces like" - she looked around - "like this peel of orange, and that clutch of pips. — Gregory Maguire

In the eyes of all of them was the hollow stare of fear, and there was hollowness in their merriment, too. — Michael Crichton

Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story. — Robert Englund

All children have gifts, some open them at different times. — Patricia Polacco

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born. — Yanis Varoufakis

Obedience to the Lord is not only measured by how much we do for our Savior, but by how we obey Him when nobody is looking. — John Wimber