Abhoring Quotes & Sayings

To my mind the whole push and thrust and development of the world is towards the more complex, the flexible, the open-minded, the ability to entertain many ideas, sometimes contradictory ones, in one's mind at the same time. — Doris Lessing

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important. — Brandon Sanderson

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments ... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part. — Leo Tolstoy

I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me — Suzanne Collins

I find you get out of people what you put into them. — Jewel

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been. — Quentin Tarantino

We must teach our people to reject gain from extortion, bribery, unrighteous grafts as something utterly abhorring. — Sunday Adelaja

There were dumplings on the train, sold by grim men and women with deep lines cut into their faces by years and worry and hunger and misery. This was the provinces, the outer territories, the mysterious China that had sent millions of girls and boys to Canton to earn their fortunes in the Pearl River Delta. Matthew knew all their strange accents, he spoke their strange Mandarin language, but he was Cantonese, and these were not his people.
Those were not his dumplings. — Cory Doctorow

Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun. — Robert Anton Wilson

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after. — Richard Flanagan

mom with a part-time (inching — Jennifer Weiner