Agogues Quotes & Sayings

I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone. — Bobbie Ann Mason

If I'm put in a situation where I am not really sure what's going to happen, it can be overwhelming. I get a bit anxious. — Misty Copeland

Mummy and Daddy want him to be an evil genius, but he has his heart set on Latin verse. Don't you, Pill?" The boy gave his sister a nasty stare. "Pillover is terribly bad at being bad, if you take my meaning. Our daddy is a founding member of the Death Weasel Confederacy, and Mummy is a kitchen chemist with questionable intent, but poor Pillover can't even bring himself to murder ants with his Depraved Lens of Crispy Magnification. Can you, Pill? — Gail Carriger

So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them no matter what they're doing. — Gary Sinise

Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean. — George R R Martin

At the outset almost every man is frightened when he goes into action, but that the course to follow is for the man to keep such a grip on himself that he can act just as if he was not frightened. After this is kept up long enough it changes from pretense to reality, and the man does in very fact become fearless by sheer dint of practicing fearlessness when he does not feel it. — Theodore Roosevelt

Everyone living is doomed — Taylor Caldwell

But he had been round the world enough to know that a man has to shift for himself in it, and that if he gets the worst of it, there is nobody to listen to him holler. — Upton Sinclair

Alarm clocks, I felt, were nothing more than a plague rained down by an evil force, possibly even Lucifer himself. — Bart Hopkins

You have everything to suit your needs, and I have you. My slut, to suit mine. — Jettie Woodruff

Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it. — Jennifer Donnelly