Didong Quotes & Sayings

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body ... — Elizabeth Peters

Girls are better at this sort of labour, often called 'emotional labour', not because there's anything in the meat and matter of our living cells that makes us naturally better but because we're trained for it from birth. Trained to make other people feel good. Trained to serve the coffee, fill in the forms, organise the parties and wipe the table afterwards. Trained to be feisty, if we must, but not strong. To be bubbly, not funny. You must at no stage appear to have a body that functions in a normal human way, that pisses and shits and sweats and farts and falters. Decorate the prison of your body. Make yourself useful. Shut up and smile. — Laurie Penny

Were she not aware that he was more than a man who could make plants grow. And — Laurie R. King

Maybe they're not scared of different. Maybe they're scared of same. If we turn out to be too much like them, who can they be? — Richard Powers

Things are not as they seem. They are what they are. — Terry Pratchett

Mistakes make us human; don't torture yourself over a choice you made four years ago. If you think you were wrong, make a plan to change what you can. Action is good. Choices are good. But guilt on its own never fixed anyone's problem. — Darcy Coates

While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as your average suicide bomber. — Gene Weingarten

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. — Juvenal

An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself. — Ludwig Von Mises

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure. — Jean De La Bruyere

The moment you enter into the world of words, you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence. — Osho