Basterds Of Baseball Quotes & Sayings

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic ... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. — Russell Baker

Sometimes, until you do what you shouldn't have done, you least remember what you should have done — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The tighter your grip, the less you have to hold.
-The Pythian Scrolls — Aedan Byrnes

as tools of persuasion. He would — James Neff

Porn, it turns out, eventually takes the sexiness - that is, the wildness - out of sex. — Naomi Wolf

I love working for Disney! They are my family. — Jodi Benson

You will get something wrong today, and tomorrow, and every day of your life. So will I, and everybody you know. You don't have a choice about being wrong sometimes: mistakes will be your life-long companion. But you do have a choice about whether to approach your error in terror so you suppress, ignore, and repeat it-or to make it your honest, open ally in trying to get to the truth. — Johann Hari

The anthropoligical theorist Paul Shepard writes, 'Humans intuitivesly see analogies between the concrete world out there and their own inner world. If they conceive the former as a chaos of anarchic forces or as dead and frozen, then so will they perceive their own bodies and society; so will they think and act on that assumption and vindicate their own ideas by altering the world to fit them.' The loss of a relationship to the nonconstructed world is a loss of these metaphors. It is also loss of the large territory of the senses, a vast and irreplaceable loss of pleasure and meaning. — Rebecca Solnit

it was a point of good manners not to sit with a clique of the same friends all the time, and it meant that conversation at dinner had to be open and general rather than close and gossipy — Philip Pullman

I had no occasion for an apron on that morning. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

We all want someone to notice, but as soon as they do, we wish they never did. — Unknown

Our sons and daughters must be trained in national service, taught to give as well as to receive. — Emmeline Pankhurst

I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see.
Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. — Anne Lamott

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. — Philip G. Zimbardo