Ampinvt Quotes & Sayings

Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever. — Jane Austen

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. — Thomas R. Kelly

Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family. — Aida Turturro

She doesn't think that the mean people she knows are the most passionate; they just want to laugh at everything. But then she remembers that she laughed when a boy in class played a joke on an ugly girl and made her cry. — Mary Gaitskill

My religion is no way of knowing me. — Jeet Thayil

The way we saw things, it didn't matter that God had created the heavens and the earth - he did not want us excited about living here. A good fundamentalist worth his weight in guilt was quick to remind any skeptic that the world was going to hell in a handbasket. — Matthew Paul Turner

It's very kind of you to take us in," said the vicar, smiling. "We're so sorry if we've put you out at all." "Not at all!" I said, lying through my teeth. — Victoria Twead

I want to be in the best winning situation. I don't want to be around anybody who's just interested in playing out the season and then going home for the summer. — Jermaine O'Neal

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is. — Annabella Sciorra

What a man doesn't know he can't spill if he is captured; neither drugs, nor torture, nor brainwash, nor endless lack of sleep can squeeze out a secret he doesn't possess. — Robert A. Heinlein

We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence. — Susan Faludi

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest. — Maria Montessori

When I know the data that's being shared and I'm asked explicitly for my consent, I want some sites to understand my habits. It helps them suggest books for me to read or movies for my family to watch or friends for us to connect with. — Gary Kovacs

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire. — Epictetus

One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more. — Michael Josephson