Adultly Quotes & Sayings

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want. — Lilith Saintcrow

It is unimaginably hard to do this - to live consciously, adultly, day in and day out. — David Foster Wallace

You dwell in whitened castles
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats. — Maya Angelou

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you. — Andre Benjamin

We're in the business of luxury and there's nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them. — Phoebe Philo

Shukhov enjoyed it. He liked people pointing at him - see that man? He's nearly done his time - but he didn't let himself get excited about it. Those who'd come to the end of their time during the war had all been kept in, "pending further orders" - till '46. So those originally sentenced to three years did five altogether. They could twist the law any way they liked. When your ten years were up, they could say good, have another ten. Or pack you off to some godforsaken place of exile. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn