Answerlessness Quotes & Sayings

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, "enriched" by all this. — Paul Celan

I do not drink more than a sponge. — Francois Rabelais

I pushed my hand into the open slot of the maker and closed my fingers around the sculpted handle of the energy-pistol. The newly minted weapon had the peculiar heft of something crammed with intricate machinery at abnormal densities. — Alastair Reynolds

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative. — Peter Koestenbaum

Love is a golden bubble full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.

---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad III — Christopher Marlowe

But Ruth was wrong, too. There was more than just one other world beyond ours; there were hundreds and hundreds of them, and at 99 cents apiece I could rent them all. — Emily M. Danforth

It was good to know that when swords failed, simple girl tactics always worked - even on monsters. — Courtney Allison Moulton

For women as a class, the ability to transform sexual practice, to achieve respect from men as equal human beings and thus break out of their subordinate status, is undermined by the ability of men to escape from the responsibility of acknowledging women's equality. Men's use of women in prostitution stands directly in the way of women's efforts to improve their status. — Sheila Jeffreys

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers. — Walter Kirn

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask. — Helen Hunt Jackson

Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy — Kevin Steele

Felt it for the first time when I was working on the legal codes and drafts of the Enlightenment. They were based on the belief that a good order is intrinsic to the world, and that therefore the world can be brought into good order. To see how legal provisions were created paragraph by paragraph out of this belief as solemn guardians of this good order, and worked into laws that strove for beauty and by their very beauty for truth, made me happy. For a long time I believed that there was progress in the history of law, a development towards greater beauty and truth, rationality and humanity, despite terrible setbacks and retreats. Once it became clear to me that this belief was a chimera, I began playing with a different image of the course of legal history. In this one it still has a purpose, but the goal it finally attains, after countless disruptions, confusions, and delusions, is the beginning, its own original starting point, which once reached must be set off from again. — Bernhard Schlink