Akrivista Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather be a slave than a corpse. — Terry Pratchett

I certainly know what it is like to go to work and leave your baby at home. It is an ache that only other mothers can understand. I always say that it feels like you've left a limb at home. And I really struggled for the first few months of work. There were times when I shut myself in my room and cried. — Leigh-Allyn Baker

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels? — Thomas Adams

So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I was applying for campus housing and overheard Andy telling my mother that the only way I was going to be safe from all the sexual assaults he'd heard about on National Public Radio was if I lived in an all-girl dorm.
Never mind that I have been kicking the butts of the undead since I was in elementary school, and that almost the entire time I resided under Andy's roof, I had a hot undead guy living in my bedroom. These are two of those secrets I was telling you about. Andy doesn't know about them, and neither does my mother. They think Jesse is what Father Dominic told them he is: a "young Jesuit student who transferred to the Carmel Mission from Mexico, then lost his yearning to go into the priesthood" after meeting me.
That one slays me every time. — Meg Cabot

I say what other people won't. — Kevin Smith

A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing to touch and to handle and to pass around for everyone to read. — Letitia Baldrige

I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end. — Franz Kafka

Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts. — Noam Chomsky

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden. — D.E. Stevenson

The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie. [Referring to pronouncement by Justice Anthony Kennedy in Obergefell v. Hodges: "The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity."] — Antonin Scalia

You're all there," she said. "What do you mean?" "I mean, I never met a man like you." "Oh, yeah?" "The others are only ten percent there or twenty percent, you're all there, all of you is very there, it's so different." "I don't know anything about it." "You're a hooker, you can hook women. — Charles Bukowski