Dittany Quotes & Sayings

So much of his life seemed to be like this now, a blur of days without anything to define them from each other, like episodes of a soap he watched out of habit, even though none of the characters interested him. — Joanne Harris

These three creation stories were shaped in the patriarchal, slave-holding world of early urban civilization in the eastern Mediterranean of the second and first millennia M.C.E. In the Babylonian story that urban world is still new and precarious. Another world, not under male/human control, stands as the earlier beginning, ruled by a huge theriomorphic Great Mother, who gestated all things, gods and cosmic beings, in the mingled waters of her womb. The story mandates her dethronement, and with it a demotion of the female from primal power to secondary consort.
Slavery is a central institution mandated by this story. — Rosemary Radford Ruether

Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. — John Milton

After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure. — Bobby Bell

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. — Harry S. Truman

Rhage stepped out in front of him (JM), "Hey, hi! How are you?" Hollywood stuck his hand out. "I'd like to introduce myself. I'm the piece of meat that's going to force you headfirst into your buddy Quinn's Hummer as soon as it gets here. Just figured I'd introduced myself before I rope your ass and throw you over my shoulder like a bag of sand. — J.R. Ward

Sometimes I think what the church needs most is to recover some of its weird. There's no sense in sending her through the makeover montage of the chick flick when she'll always be the strange, awkward girl who only gets invited to prom on a dare. — Rachel Held Evans

Whoever said happiness needs a plan? — Robert Holden

It is my conviction that we make ourselves who we want to be and not chain ourselves to the notions of busybodies who wish to judge us. — Matthew Pearl

There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes. — Mohnish Pabrai

Please, please, please, I silently ask a God who should have stopped listening to me long ago. — Megan McCafferty

I move impatiently
towards a lover
I haven't met — Merrit Malloy