Brenengen West Quotes & Sayings

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups. — Deborah Tannen

Kim called me a slut under her breath in H&P, and Mr. Wallace heard her and gave a lecture on the negative effects of labels, and how words like that serve to limit women's sexual expression, and how there's a whole history of words that basically mean slut8 and yet there are no equivalent epithets for men whatsoever, and didn't that say something about how women are viewed in our culture? He said a more accurate term could be: "a girl who's using sexuality in an attempt to gain approval from the opposite sex ... ." Or, if you look at it a different way, "a liberated, open girl who likes boys and feels comfortable expressing affection, but is misunderstood." Blah blah blah.
I'm sure he meant well, but I wanted to call Kim a megaslut right back and not think about it anymore — E. Lockhart

Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness. — John Frusciante

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment. — Anjem Choudary

AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world. — Nelson Mandela

Real love - our love of God and our love of each other - must involve a choice. But with the granting of that choice comes the possibility that people would choose instead to hate. — Lee Strobel

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect', when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view. — George Voinovich

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. — Gerrit Smith

What did you expect?" he murmured. "Time passes. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected. — DaShanne Stokes

The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the heart,
There will be no end to our progress. — Sri Chinmoy