Agonies Def Quotes & Sayings

In our nation masses of people are concerned about violence but resolutely refuse to link that violence to patriarchal thinking or male domination. Feminist thinking offers a solution. And it is up to us to make that solution available to everyone. — Bell Hooks

They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modelling. — Lew Wallace

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. — Simone Weil

You cannot truly know pleasure without pain.
You cannot truly know strength without weakness.
You cannot truly know joy without sorrow.
You cannot truly know hope without despair. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The protons are dead, nothing will ever be the same — Jerry Spinelli

Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ. — Edward Norris Kirk

I don't mean to brag or anything, but I'm preparing for a very big role. Sure, it's a cinnamon roll, but I don't want to look like I can't finish it. Or spell it. — Jim Gaffigan

your hands
humming hurricanes
of beauty. — Sonia Sanchez

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir. — Hilary Liftin