Darius Item Quotes & Sayings

She is at a crossroads: a child's violent will to survive lodged in her chest where her heart should be, but an utter indifference along with it. — Lidia Yuknavitch

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal? — Anthony Liccione

We live in a different world, you and me - governed by different laws ... — John Geddes

Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities. — Daniel Defoe

No, they didn't have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today. — Annie Proulx

That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted. — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Normal' is a bedtime story-a fable-that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what's happening around them is not 'normal' at all. — Deborah Harkness

If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance. — Ralph Ellison

All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples. — Vladimir Nabokov