Avalide Quotes & Sayings

People say I'm shrill and strident. — Richard Dawkins

The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away. — Wendell Berry

The road to the heart is the ear — Voltaire

In the neurotic in whom one sees the collapse of the whole human ideology of God it has also become obvious what this signifies psychologically. This was not explained by Freud's psychoanalysis which only comprehended the destructive process in the patient from his personal history without considering the cultural development which bred this type. — Ernest Becker

Ever since he repented of religion and shaved off his clerical beard and mustache, he has had the constant feeling that he has taken off his trousers, and that his nose protrudes altogether indecently and must at all cost be covered. It's sheer torment!
With one hand over his nose, the deacon knocks again and again. No one responds. And yet Martha is home; the gate is locked from within. And that means - what? It means that she is with someone else ... The deacon punctuates the scene inwardly with the three dots we have graphically depicted just above, and, tripping over them at every second step, he proceeds to Rosa Luxemburg Street. ("X") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'll just be another human on a planet full of humans, but better equipped because I have demands.
For my family.
For my life.
For the world.
For myself.
What acceptable behay-vyah.
What acceptable behay-vyah — A.S. King

If I hold her hand she says, 'Don't touch!'
If I hold her foot she says 'Don't touch!'
But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know. — Chinua Achebe

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight. — Dwight L. Moody

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it. — Larry Niven

He was so much more than she had expected. More than a delicious body and a smile that came out of nowhere to light up the darkness of this hopeless place. — Aria Kane

You know how you just have to touch your child, sometimes? How you drink him in with your eyes and you could stare at him for hours and you marvel at how dear and impossibly perfect he is? — Anne Tyler

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that ... whatever it was. — Robert Plant

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think. — Lena Dunham

Trust me, I know what I'm doing, — David Rasche