Compleats Cookies Quotes & Sayings

Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne? — L.M. Montgomery

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good — Charles Bukowski

How can we love the unseen God and hate the visible man? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't feel that I was often compartmentalized as an African-American actor, yet I am fully aware of the plight that actors, directors and producers of color face in our industry. I choose to focus on being proactive in creating opportunities for myself and others while acknowledging that we are not playing on a level playing field. — Kim Fields

Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging. — Angela Carter

Our parents resorted to the lash the way flagellants in the plague years resorted to the scourge. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Typographers are designers; designers are my people. — Robin Sloan

I believe in a magnificent God. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You don't love me, but you used to. I wanted to say thank you for that. — Stacey T. Hunt

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand ... And the power in hand is the vote. — Helen Gahagan Douglas

Regardless, I often wish that the two groups - adults and kids - could find a way to get along better. Some sort of treaty or something. The biggest problem is, the adults have one of the most effective recruitment strategies in the world.
Give them enough time, and they'll turn any kid into one of them. — Brandon Sanderson

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit. — J. C. Watts

When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through it, bought it and "read it with so much pleasure that he was forced at times to interrupt his reading, so loud were the beatings of his heart due to the extreme pleasure he had in doing so". Those who never put down a book of erudition, science or philosophy, to catch their breath, so to speak, and recover from the strong emotion they experience, certainly ignore of of the most exquisite pleasures of intellectual life. — Etienne Gilson