Badasstress Quotes & Sayings

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do. — Robbie Robertson

Why?" I demanded of her. "Why bring the child into this? Why not just come straight to me?"
"Does it matter at this point?"
I shrugged. "Not really. I'm curious."
She stared at me for a moment and then she smiled. "You don't know."
I eyed her warily. "Don't know what?"
"Dear boy," she said. "This was never about you."
I scowled. "I don't understand."
"Obviously," Arianna said, and gave me a stunning smile. "Die confused. — Jim Butcher

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

Aging is not kind to anyone. — Steven Magee

Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want. — Zachary Cole Smith

I will receive from them not what they have but what they are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any act in the name of God returns 10 fold. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years. — Andre Agassi

We were all growing old, and the only thing we could count on anymore was each other. ( ... ) They were the people I loved, and it was their souls I carried around inside me. — Paul Auster

What would Ripley do? When in a jam, Carrow often thought of how Ellen Ripley, the legendary badasstress of the Alien quadrilogy, would figure her way out. — Kresley Cole

China. She will return, standing tall and straight, the milk burned out of her. She will look down on the circle of light we have made in the Pit and she will know that I have kept watch, that I have fought. China will bark and call me sister. In the star-suffocated sky, there is a great waiting silence.
She will know that I am a mother. — Jesmyn Ward

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'. — Will Self

The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript. — Walt Whitman

Through the metal bars of the jungle gym, she watches two gray squirrels chase each other around a tree. Around and around and around. So gratuitous. — Thomas Pierce