Artigo Definido Quotes & Sayings

More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf. Bronte, Bronte, and Bronte. I began to resent Emily, Anne, and Charlotte - my old friends - with a terrifying passion. They were not only talented; they were brave, a trait I admired more than anything but couldn't seem to possess. The world that raised these women hadn't allowed them to write, yet they had spun fiery novels in spite of all the odds. Meanwhile, I was failing with all the odds tipped in my favor. Here I was, living out Virginia Woolf's wildest feminist fantasy. I was in a room of my own. The world was no longer saying, "Write? What's the good of your writing?" but was instead saying "Write if you choose; it makes no difference to me. — Catherine Lowell

Gus sat there, pumping his fist, waiting for the medicine to work, the medicine that did not kill the pain so much as distance him from it — John Green

Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next. — Ezra Taft Benson

That which Dante saw written on the door of the inferno must be written in a different sense also at the entrance to philosophy: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." Those who look for true philosophy must be bereft of all hope, all desire, all longing. They must not wish for anything, not know anything, must feel completely bare and impoverished. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death — Nelson Mandela

Its emotional character ... is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency - sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping silent, living or dying - are not just unpleasant but literally horrible. — David Foster Wallace

By voluntarily adopting a dominated body posture you display the fact that you have accepted to be inferior. — J.F. Bouchard

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead. — Max Brooks

God forbid the wife should have prior knowledge of sex, let alone enjoy it. — Laurie Viera Rigler

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don't, we're barking up the wrong tree. But when you believe in something and you see other people believing in it too, it just feels like you're doing something right in the world, and that feels good. — Zachary Levi

The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living. — Kaori Ozaki