Aprivative Quotes & Sayings

I can feel you
staring at me," he said in the softest wake-up voice I'd ever heard. "I only
hope you're a girl and not one of the drunken guys. — Piper Shelly

One sky, many lands.
One story, many books.
One truth, many interpretations.
One road, many paths.
One God, many religions. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight. — Thomas Aquinas

This funny thing happens when you graduate college. You hear so much about being an adult that you start to feel like you have to become a different person overnight, that growing up means being not you. And you concentrate so hard on living up to the term "adult" that you forget growing up happens by living, not by sheer force of will. — Cora Carmack

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want. — George Harrison

I hoped they saw right through my death mask to my sad and fiery soul, though I doubt they saw me at all. — Ottessa Moshfegh

Amos found what I'm pretty sure was the most expensive hooker I've ever seen. — James S.A. Corey

You can walk in the light by faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt. — Malcolm Gladwell

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. — Gerald R. Ford