Carl Mcgowan Quotes & Sayings

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me. — Cher Lloyd

I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review. — Vladimir Nabokov

I am completely opposed to the concept of big data. — Chris Toumazou

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off. — George Eliot

Trying to corral the suburban stampede with a bunch of school buses was like herding cats. Actually, it was worse than herding cats. It was herding white people, earth's only species with a greater sense of entitlement than a cat. — Tanner Colby

I love your independence, I love that you don't swoon, I love that you'll fight me with your last breath if you think I'm wrong, and if I ever have to catch you, I swear I'll make sure you're standing on your feet as quickly as you can manage it. — Dianna Hardy

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner. — Laozi

Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality. — Lyman Abbott

Be not perfect, be just and kind. — Debasish Mridha

Women have greater freedom than ever before, and yet it is not clear whether that freedom has given us greater access to true love. It is not clear how that freedom has changed the nature of romance and partnerships. — Bell Hooks

Humanity is my religion; Earthian is my nationality. — Vinita Kinra

In the sexual-liberation movement of the sixties, its ideology and practice, neither force nor the subordinate status of women was an issue. It was assumed that - unrepressed - everyone wanted intercourse all the time (men, of course, had other important things to do; women had no legitimate reason not to want to be fucked); and it was assumed that in women an aversion to intercourse, or not climaxing from intercourse, or not wanting intercourse at a particular time or with a particular man, or wanting fewer partners than were available, or getting tired, or being cross, were all signs of and proof of sexual repression. Fucking per se was freedom per se. — Andrea Dworkin

Sweet the young muse with love intense,
Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence. — Christopher Smart