Currishly Quotes & Sayings

I'm not running around looking for love and validation. — Sophie B. Hawkins

As I watch my priest lay the communion table for the gathered believers, I remember why eating attentively is worth all the effort: The table is not only a place where we can become present to God. The table is also a place where He becomes present to us. — Lauren F. Winner

Defriending in't just unrecognized by some social oversight, it's protected by its own protocol, a code of silence. Demanding an explanation wouldn't just be undignified; it would violate the whole tacit contract on which friendship is founded. The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. [...] Laura Kipnis's book Against Love: A Polemic includes a harrowing eight0page inventory of things people are not allowed to do because they're in romantic relationships, from going out without saying where you're going or when you'll be back to wearing that idiotic hat. But your best friend can move across the country without asking you. — Tim Kreider

O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring) — E. E. Cummings

I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles. — Marianne Vos

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself. — John Calvin

A revolutionary army can sometimes win by enthusiasm, but a conscript army has got to win with weapons, — George Orwell

As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recognize cancers within an individual as foreign, because they are actually part of the self. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. — John Locke

In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. — Adam Smith

It takes way more effort to be a bitch than it does to not be one. — Colleen Hoover

When sun shines, it not only brightens our day; it enlightens us, our soul, cleansing it of the gloominess that the night's darkness had brought in. — Tista Ray