Blancaflor Story Quotes & Sayings

Many of us cling to particular vessels, fetishizing over this mug or that plate. — Bee Wilson

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men - and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented ... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort - as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation help people maintain the length of their telomeres. — Elizabeth Blackburn

They [heterosexual cis women] are accepted in the straight mainstream way more readily than I [trans woman] will ever be. But they are marginalized in their day-to-day lives because they are feminine. To argue that they are reinforcing the binary, or the patriarchy or the hegemonic gender system, because they are conventional feminine (as opposed to subversively feminine) essentially implies that they are enabling their own oppression. This is just another variation of the claim that rapists make when they insinuate that the woman in question was 'asking for it' because of what she was wearing or how she behaved. — Julia Serano

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned. — Sheryl Crow

When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit. — Rita Zahara

The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro, — William Gibson

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science? — Jerry A. Coyne

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. — John Drinkwater

There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. — Mark Twain