Catastaltic Astringent Quotes & Sayings

After ten years of slavery, Arin knew obedience in its many forms. The fear of pain, the gritty promise to oneself of vengeance. Hopelessness. A grinding monotony broken just often enough by the strap or fist. — Marie Rutkoski

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education. — Umberto Eco

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point? — Tracy Letts

Most trails can be fairly simple. — Robert Lucas Jr.

Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased. — Buster Keaton

I have three children and I think I'm happy when I'm with them and they're okay. When I see them enjoying each other in front of me, and then they let me enjoy them in turn. That brings a feeling which I would say is happiness. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle. — Karen Tayleur

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. — Simone Weil

I picked up her icy hand and carefully held it in my own. I didn't understand my need to touch her, to have a physical connection with her. — Melissa A. Hanson

The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing. — Abby Slovin

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better. — Mark Batterson

I'm not really interested in clothes. Mainly, I like wearing clothes that don't make me stand out - I tend to go for Marks & Spencer and Gap - and I do get put in the changing room at Gap, and clothes are passed to me under the changing room door. — David Cameron

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck. — John Knowles