Afifah Ifanda Quotes & Sayings

The answer to these questions is tied to the public's attitude about suicide. For many people, suicide is morally reprehensible. It's against their religion, or against their culture, or contrary to their personal values. Like other unpleasant subjects - incest, disease, discrimination - it's avoided. — John Bateson

Time is something you make the most of or it is gone forever. — John Lock

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most. — DaShanne Stokes

When we live with a lack of anxiety about the future, even in those tightrope kind of times, we communicate the truth that our God is indeed worthy of our trust. — Matt Chandler

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons. — Anne Desclos

Sigh. These were my people now that I was a writer, people who didn't understand anything. I mean, they understood perfectly the thing I cared most about - books - but basically were moron-level elsewhere. — Claire Dederer

The church is not in the morals business. The world is in the morals business, quite rightfully; and it has done a fine job of it, all things considered. — Robert Farrar Capon

A particularly significant example of brain against body, or measures against matter, is urban man's total slavery to clocks. A clock is a convenient device for arranging to meet a friend, or for helping people to do things together, although things of this kind happened long before they were invented. Clocks should not be smashed; they should simply be kept in their place. And they are very much out of place when we try to adapt our biological rhythms of eating, sleeping, evacuation, working, and relaxing to their uniform circular rotation. Our slavery to these mechanical drill masters has gone so far and our whole culture is so involved with it that reform is a forlorn hope; without them civilization would collapse entirely. A less brainy culture would learn to synchronize its body rhythms rather than its clocks. — Alan W. Watts

For a moment Appledusk looked as if he was going to disagree, then he nodded. You're right. Come on, we'll take one kit each. Mapleshade, follow us. — Erin Hunter

My history defines who I am. — Simone Elkeles