Conducts Electricity Quotes & Sayings

[W]hat is this state, from women's point of view? The state is male in the feminist sense: the law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women ... The state's formal norms recapitulate the male point of view on the level of design. — Catharine A. MacKinnon

It's easier to say true things in the dark. Spider said, "You know what doesn't make sense here?" "Everything? — Neil Gaiman

I think my mother ... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected. — Caroline Kennedy

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. — Mark Twain

What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you. — Homer

Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

Are seeds of hope, yes. Of course." ... "The nocturni are the bearers of the hope seeds." ... "That's why it's such bad luck to cross them ... They carry the seeds Above, and plant them in souls where they're needed. — Lauren Oliver

If you are in a meeting and you disagree mentally then you have an obligation to disagree verbally! — Perry Noble

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak. — Albert Camus

Liz wasn't sure why, but as the door slammed behind her, her thoughts strayed to Brady. He would have never belittled her career like that. In fact, he had always been interested in where her life was headed. — K.A. Linde

Do you know what made me fall in love with you?" George asked suddenly. Anne shook her head, puzzled that he should ask her this now. "I heard you laugh, down the hall, just before I got to Spanish class that first day. I couldn't see you. I just heard this fabulous laugh, like a whole octave, top to bottom. And I had to hear it again. — Mary Doria Russell

So he went on, tearing up all the flowers from the garden of his soul, and setting his heel upon them. — Upton Sinclair

Not comprehending things the way other people do is fine in academia because we can usually find our own methods, but in social situations, this same tendency plays out differently - we can't always impose our own rules and priorities on others. We can't research people in everyday conversation the way we research information from books. It is not uncommon for us, when we're young, to ask too many questions of others, which makes them uncomfortable. If we could set the tone, we would probably be more comfortable, but we can't so we shut down. — Rudy Simone