5280 Quotes & Sayings

I'm more than just a pretty face, I can tell you that much, he says with a wink — Karina Halle

We'll have to keep on being disappointed in each other, won't we, Ma? — Nora Roberts

Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25. — Susan Minot

Can you imagine a world without men? There'd be no crime, and lots of fat happy women. — Nicole Hollander

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbour by his own nature. — Henri Frederic Amiel

I don't think this is working out between us," I told him. "You and I want different things. It's not me, it's you. — T.J. Klune

Integral reality is the world's transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both. — Jean Gebser

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof. — Alice Walker

... Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way. — Louisa May Alcott

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. — Ahmed Ben Bella

Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop. — Elfriede Jelinek

Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass. — Ray Bradbury