Bothoan Quotes & Sayings

Whether it appears in a story about a man killing his girlfriend while calling her a whore or in trying to battle conservative claims that emergency contraception or the HPV vaccine will make girls promiscuous, the purity myth in America underlies more misogyny than most people would like to admit — Jessica Valenti

With a silent order, I urged Snout forward - but he veered away, charging toward Hazel instead. No, Snout! I thought. Toward the roof! He ignored me. That was the problem with a machine that obeyed your thoughts. Instead of doing what you said, it did what you wanted.

"The Predator !" Hazel shouted at me as I heaved toward the irrigation tower. "Stop the Predator !"

"I'm trying!" I yelled back. "I can't!"
"Why not?"
"'Cause this stupid thing brought me to you instead."
"Why?" Then she looked at my face again and said, "Aw, that's sweet."
I flushed. "Oh, shut up. — Joel N. Ross

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same? — Guy Finley

Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling. — Cheyenne McCray

They who plead an absolute right cannot be satisfied with anything short of personal representation, because all natural rights must be the rights of individuals; as by nature there is no such thing as politic or corporate personality; all these things are mere fictions of law, they are creatures of voluntary institution; men as men are individuals, and nothing else. They, therefore, who reject the principle of natural and personal representation, are essentially and eternally at variance with those who claim it. As to the first sort of reformers, it is ridiculous to talk to them of the British constitution upon any or upon all of its bases; for they lay it down that every man ought to govern himself, and that where he cannot go himself he must send his representative; that all other government is usurpation; and is so far from having a claim to our obedience, it is not only our right, but our duty, to resist it. — Edmund Burke

You'll have to be my conscience." He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. "Mine isn't going to grow back. — Nalini Singh

There were absolutely amazing photographs everywhere, on everyone's Facebook page and everyone's iPhone and Instagram, just floating around in cyberspace for eternity. People took hundreds and thousands of digital pictures; one or two, even twenty or a hundred, were bound to be great. All anyone had to do was click through them all and post the ones they liked, deleting the rest. But using film meant you never knew what was going to be a good picture, let alone a great one, until you were standing there looking at a contact sheet with a magnifying glass and deciding which to print.
Maybe nobody cared anymore, but then again, writers probably felt the same way when word processors were invented. Anyone with a story and a keyboard could write their memoir now, write the great American novel, or tweet a 140-character trope that gets retweeted and it read by hundreds of people every hour of every day. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey! — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

An idea may seem good in the beginning,
but in the end turn out to be bad;
or may seem bad in the beginning,
but in the end turn out to be good. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born. — Khalil Gibran

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. — Bob Dylan

When everyone thinks alike, there isn't much thinking taking place. Get out when you can, not when you have to. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he's right? — Johnny Rich

But my prevailing theory at the moment was this fucking booth. — Sierra Simone

Always walk out the door ahead of your dog when leaving the house. This will show your dog who is in the leadership role. — Cesar Millan