Delaby Brace Quotes & Sayings

Now the proofs furnished by the speech are of three kinds. The first depends upon the moral character of the speaker, the second upon putting the hearer into a certain frame of mind, the third upon the speech itself, in so far as it proves or seems to prove. [4] — Aristotle.

She is dying because she said.
She is dying for the sake of the word.
It is her body, silent
and fingerless, writing this poem. — Margaret Atwood

In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend. — Simone De Beauvoir

I'm just not interested." "Do you have ovaries?" Jacob asked. I shot him a look. "Yes." ... "Then how are you not interested. — J. Lynn

The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear. — Liberty Ross

There is an unspoken pact between best friends that stipulates the following:
To induce laughter, all you have to do is look at your partner-in-crime - even in the absence of said crime. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

It is easy to imagine that the great labyrinth, winding round an entire island in the northern ocean, is the reason behind the fleeting, solitary existence of those who live in it, but this does not explain why they built it in the first place. Perhaps they really did want to lose themselves. — A.C. Tillyer

I won't tell if you won't. — Jessica Verday

People ask, "Why is there poverty in the world?" It's a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil. — Jonah Goldberg

The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability. — Barbra Streisand

In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts. — John Felstiner

only if the past is understood can the future be navigated — Ross Terrill

There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide. — Michael Rivero

Disconnection, separation, division, detachment, disassociation - these are all words that describe
the way we view our world and ourselves. We are disconnected from the Earth herself, separated from the
delicate web she has woven, divided from each other by arbitrary encumbrances, detached from the very
meaning of our existence, and disassociated from the awe and mystery of the world and the universe. Our
daily lives are filled with more events than our elaborate datebooks can contain, we live by the litany "oh,
that there were only more hours in the day," and we bemoan our lot in life. We are scared to death of spiders
and cockroaches, consider the natural world as wild, untamed and therefore dangerous, and resist awareness
into the intricacies of our world for fear of having to take on one more responsibility. — Jackie Alan Giuliano