Chloe Beth Hennessey Quotes & Sayings

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly? — John Adams

[W]ith the sense of self gone, ... actions naturally become uncalculated and free. — Steve Hagen

It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person. — Warren Ballentine

If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues. — Ilchi Lee

It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble. — Margaret Ayer Barnes

The thin end of the sensible clothes wedge had been inserted in society by the disgraceful Mrs Bloomer a decade and a half before the year of which I write; but that early attempt at the trouser suit had been comprehensively defeated by the crinoline--a small fact of considerable significance in our understanding of the Victorians. They were offered sense; and chose a six-foot folly unparalleled in the most folly-ridden of minor arts. — John Fowles

Film and calculus, both pornographies of flight. — Thomas Pynchon

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man? — W. L. George