6x6 Post Quotes & Sayings

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. — Mahatma Gandhi

In his studies, he usually finds men do one and a half things at a time. Whereas women, particularly mothers, do about five things at once. And, at the same time, they are caught up in contaminated time, thinking about and planning two or three things more. So they are never fully experiencing their external or their internal worlds. — Brigid Schulte

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work. — Ray Lewis

Being a visionary leader is not about giving speeches and inspiring the troops. How I spend my day is pretty much the same as how any executive spends his day. Being a visionary leader is about solving day-to-day problems with my vision in mind. — Bill O'Brien

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. — Ugo Betti

For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another, upon all the loans it has occasion to make. Nor does the evil end here; the same disadvantage must be sustained upon whatever is to be bought on terms of future payment. From this constant necessity of borrowing and buying dear, it is easy to conceive how immensely the expenses of a nation, in a course of time, will be augmented by an unsound state of the public credit. — Alexander Hamilton

Fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don't be bigger than my idea of you, don't be more beautiful than i can accept, don't be more human than i am willing to allow you to be and be quiet, you're too loud, even your un-belonging is loud. quiet your dreams, your voice, your hair, quiet your skin, quiet your displacement, quiet your longing, your colour, quiet your walk, your eyes. who said you could look at me like that? who said you could exist without permission? why are you even here? why aren't you shrinking? i think of you often. you vibrate. you walk into a room and the temperature changes. i lean in and almost recognise you as human. but, no. we can't have that. — Warsan Shire

Some people are so broken they get mad at you for being whole. — ANA

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having. — George Horace Lorimer

And what else is erotic craving but a craving to be violated? In voluptuous turmoil, we are left not simply wounded, but shattered. The violent emotions that are aroused, that sense the obscenity in anguish, that push on in a momentum that can no longer derail or control itself, sense also the exultation of risking oneself, of plunging into the danger zone, of expending our forces at a loss. — Alphonso Lingis

The truth is nobody here is as stupid or evil as I let on. Except me. — Chuck Palahniuk

The hawk ripped out his jugular, spraying the morning sunlight with a fine mist of blood. — Erika Johansen

Whenever I travel with my young children, I'm always reminded of an important travel lesson: Never travel with my young children. — Jim Gaffigan

To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed. — Philip Kapleau