Afilada In English Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed. — Brandon Sanderson

At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter — Zach Braff

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers. — John Shelton Reed

The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them. — Michel Foucault

Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

Some people believe that if they keep their heads down and stick to their safe routine and trust that nothing bad will befall them, then it won't. They see things happening to others, but they think they're different; they're special; it could never happen to them. They believe that nothing can get better, but also that nothing can get worse. They're cowards, in one way, because they won't fight, but they're also brave, because they're willing to accept their lot in life. Glupava smelost, we called it. Foolish courage. — Samantha Shannon

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic. — Piet Mondrian

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal — Murasaki Shikibu

For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection. — Ann Voskamp

He spent so long building walls to protect his privacy that I think he forgot to build a door. — J. Kenner