72223 Quotes & Sayings

It isn't about the welfare check. It never was.
It isn't about sexual permissiveness, or personal morality, or failures in parenting, or lack of family planning. All of these are inherent in the disaster, but the purposefulness with which babies make babies in places like West Baltimore goes far beyond accident and chance, circumstance and misunderstanding. It's about more than the sexual drives of adolescents, too, though that might be hard to believe in a country where sex alone is enough of an argument to make anyone do just about anything.
In Baltimore, a city with the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation, the epidemic is, at root, about human expectation, or more precisely, the absence of expectation. — David Simon

Who sows fear, reaps weapons. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process. — George Washington

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. — Bill Watterson

My tongue had probably earned about 20 million Frequent Flyer Miles to rush my immortal impudent soul to a special torture chamber in purgatory — Dorothea Benton Frank

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should. — Clifford Geertz

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff. — Nancy B. Brewer

I know you don't understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward," he says. — Zoe Cruz

He said you were very dangerous."
"No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth. — Jasper Fforde

If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit strategy. — Kelvin Kwa