Dissan Group Quotes & Sayings

After what God has done in my life, I will be only what it pleases Him to make me. — Norma Gail

Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have won only what men have been willing to concede to them; they have taken nothing; they have received.5 It is that they lack the concrete means to organize themselves into a unit that could posit itself in opposition. They have no past, no history, no religion of their own; and unlike the proletariat, they have no solidarity of labor or interests; they even lack their own space that makes communities of American blacks, the Jews in ghettos, or the workers in Saint-Denis or Renault factories. They live dispersed among men, tied by homes, work, economic interests, and social conditions to certain men - fathers or husbands - more closely than to other women. As bourgeois women, they are in solidarity with bourgeois men and not with women proletarians; as white women, they are in solidarity with white men and not with black women. — Simone De Beauvoir

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness. — Alistair Begg

Xavier would be such a great burger. He's all covered in spread ... — Robert Pattinson

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. — Will Durant

If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground. — George Saunders

The wildest thing about holding my brother's memories inside me? Seeing myself through his eyes, hearing myself with his ears, sailing the Cassiopeian sea in three dimensions, the way we experience practically everything except the one thing we're supposed to understand the best: ourselves. — Rick Yancey

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. — Jean-Paul Sartre

What was there in a man's life, but what he saw and what he could not? — Luke Taylor

Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? — Ned Vizzini