Contently Reviews Quotes & Sayings

Now this is the attitude which I attack. It is the huge heresy of Precedent. It is the view that because we have got into a mess we must grow messier to suit it; that because we have taken a wrong turn some time ago we must go forward and not backwards; that because we have lost our way we must lose our map also; and because we have missed our ideal, we must forget it. — G.K. Chesterton

I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you. — Emily Yoffe

It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air. — Reeve Carney

This is what I think, but I don't say the words because the counterpoint of yes and no, love and hate, fear and longing, the need to tear down and the need to build up are synonymous and one. — Robert Vivian

His hand came up to cup my cheek and he whispered, Cookie, pay attention. I'm gonna give you everything. — Kristen Ashley

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist. — Judy Chicago

Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, and then fights
Next judging chaps' rights
Then sitting in slippers: then drooling. — Robert Conquest

There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They change their names, they become someone else entirely, maybe out west. — Marco Roth

Tolkienist (n.) Someone who studies the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. — Leslie Simon

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision. — Helen Keller

My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and set up my expectations accordingly. An important part of spiritual practice is to learn to let go, to recognize that Plan A exists only in my head. — Denise Roy