Aequivocal Quotes & Sayings

It is a marble statue of a man with his children near him, and the man has such desperation on his face and the children at his feet appear to be clinging, begging him, while he gazes out toward the world with a tortured look, his hands pulling at his nouth, but his children look only at him, and when I finally saw this, I said inside myself, Oh.
I read the placard, which let me know that these children are offering themselves as food for their father, he is being starved to death in prison, and these children only want one thing - to have their father's distress disappear. They will allow him - oh, happily, happily - to eat them.
And I thought, So that guy knew. Meaning the sculptor. He knew.
And so did the poet who wrote what the sculpture has shown. He knew too. — Elizabeth Strout

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture. — John Burroughs

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors. — Sean Combs

Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic. — Jemima Khan

he fought hard against corruption in all forms, especially with the Canal Ring (every scandal during this time seems to have the word "ring" attached to it, much like every scandal since Watergate has "gate" attached to it.) — Michael Rubbinaccio

The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification — Tom DeLay

Reaching a fixed destination is not a big success; the big success is to reach a mobile destination, a destination which continuously escapes from you; it is to reach a bird flying not to a mountain sitting! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour. — Bryan Ferry

Why would he want you when he could have me?... I'm your yesterday and you're my tomorrow. — Angel Gelique

Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone. — Crystal Woods

Staring into the ring of candles - proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake — Margaret Peterson Haddix

Names have been further distinguished into univocal and aequivocal: these, however, are not two kinds of names, but two different modes of employing names. — John Stuart Mill

Libby was dead. Princess X disappeared.
May lost her best friend again, and again, and again. — Cherie Priest