Castoffsailing Quotes & Sayings

Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law. — Annie Besant

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting. — Michel De Montaigne

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing. — Lena Headey

You can't really mean to punish the entire male gender for the errors of a few — Alyssa Rose Ivy

The Missouri of his childhood was theoretically the inspiration for Main Street, U.S.A., though only in its halcyon summer vacation months and stripped of any dismal memories: no blizzards, no doctor's office, and no school-house. Almost no one has a dismal experience in Walt Disney's America, as a matter of fact, at least not that Walt noticed. — Eve Zibart

Before every performance I feel nervous. — Diego Boneta

Why talk about something you can't do anything about? — John Knowles

He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everybody he loved. — Cassandra Clare

I had just killed a teacher. With my shoe. — Rachel Hawkins

Neuroscientist David Comings drew out the larger implications of such hallucinations for the relationship between our rational and spiritual brains:
The psychedelic drugs like DMT often produce a sensation of "contact," of being in the presence of and interaction with a non-human being. Highly intelligent and sophisticated test subjects who knew these feelings were drug-induced nevertheless insisted the contact had really happened. The temporal lobe-limbic system's emotional tape recorder sometimes cannot distinguish between externally generated real events and internally generated non-real experience thus providing a system in which the rational brain and the spiritual brain are not necessarily in conflict. — Michael Shermer

Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them. — Mason Cooley

Even children, Lady Linette said, must be allowed some time to conspire together. — Gail Carriger

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. — Andrew Sullivan