Bellisarios Pittsburgh Quotes & Sayings

What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations — Kurt Vonnegut

I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection ... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two. — Robert Browning

The greatest homage to truth is to use it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It took me a long time to expect more from myself. To see that being vulnerable takes a shitload more strength than being closed off and sullen. — Leisa Rayven

Eternity is a frightfully long time to spend alone. — P.S. Clinen

Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom. — Elizabeth F. Loftus

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it. — Laurell K. Hamilton

No one has ever doubted you would die for those you love ... the question then becomes would you live? — Elizabeth Isaacs

There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no. — Chinelo Okparanta

Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms. — Ingrid Newkirk

Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility. — Rafael Cruz

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have. — Orson Pratt

Good mother knows her children, knows everything about them, the good and the bad. A great mother loves them regardless. — Melody Anne