Quotes & Sayings About Building Walls To Protect Yourself

Costco is a passion. Costco is like a massage. — Kris Jenner

In the building of walls to protect ourselves - we have managed to keep ourselves from the best in this life. And so the line is drawn whether to live and to be broken and unbroken or to breathe but not live at all. Perhaps there is no such thing as brokenness, afterall. Perhaps it is all just called living. — C. JoyBell C.

The first treatise on the interior of the body, which is to say, the treatise that gave the body an interior , written by Henri De Mondeville in the fourteenth century, argues that the body is a house, the house of the soul, which like any house can only be maintained as such by constant surveillance of its openings. The woman's body is seen as an inadequate enclosure because its boundaries are convoluted. While it is made of the same material as a man's body, it has ben turned inside out. Her house has been disordered, leaving its walls full of openings. Consequently, she must always occupy a second house, a building to protect her soul. Gradually this sense of vulnerability to the exterior was extended to all bodies which were then subjected to a kind of supervision traditionally given to the woman. The classical argument about her lack of self-control had been generalized. — Mark Wigley

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'. — John Lennon

You can't transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas. — Ambelin Kwaymullina

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use. — Emily Post

The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews ... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary. — Jozsef Mindszenty

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. — Stephen Hawking

Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head. — Nuno Oliveira

We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act or speak against the commandments, in particular when abortions, euthanasia, and other serious crimes against life and family are facilitated. This responsibility applies particularly to legislators, governors, and health professionals. — Pope Francis

Working with students and families from diverse class backgrounds, I am constantly amazed at how difficult it is to cross boundaries in this white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal society. And it is obviously most difficult for individuals who lack material privilege or higher levels of education to make the elaborate shifts in location, thought, and life experience cultural critics talk and write about as though it is only a matter of individual will. — Bell Hooks

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004. — Sumner Redstone

What will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived? — Margaret Mitchell

Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce. — Anthony Boucher

He spent so long building walls to protect his privacy that I think he forgot to build a door. — J. Kenner