Duerrs Quotes & Sayings

The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again." — Elayne Boosler

It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. — Audre Lorde

She laughed, and he fell in love. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I will make this world a better place, whether they like it or not. That's the fun of being Queen. — Amanda Hocking

what is a dream but a series of lies designed to keep us immobilized in a dark room for hours at a time — Mallory Ortberg

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug. — Holly Black

Since the Enlightenment, the political order is an order of freedom. The political structures are no longer given, previous to man's freedom, but are rather realities based on freedom, taken on and modified by man ... This new definition of politics carefully distinguishes between state and society. The distinction ... allows us to differentiate between the public sphere of the state of the Church (or the combination of them) as powers from the public sphere 'in which the interests of all men as a social group are expressed. — Gustavo Gutierrez

When the Europeans conquered America, they opened gold and silver mines and established sugar, tobacco and cotton plantations. These mines and plantations became the mainstay of American production and export. The sugar plantations were particularly important. In the Middle Ages, sugar was a rare luxury in Europe. It was imported from the Middle East at prohibitive prices and used sparingly as a secret ingredient in delicacies and snake-oil medicines. After large sugar plantations were established in America, ever-increasing amounts of sugar began to reach Europe. The price of sugar dropped and Europe developed an insatiable sweet tooth. Entrepreneurs met this need by producing huge quantities of sweets: cakes, cookies, chocolate, candy, and sweetened beverages such as cocoa, coffee and tea. The annual sugar intake of the average Englishman rose from near zero in the early seventeenth century to around eighteen pounds in the early nineteenth century. — Yuval Noah Harari

Hey! Back up off her!" Travis frowned, shoving anyone who came near me. His stern expression melted into a smile at the sight my shirt, and then he dabbed my face with a towel. "Sorry about that, Pigeon. — Jamie McGuire

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic. — Carrie Brownstein

Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word. — Mark Batterson

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood. — Satchel Paige

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Zara: It's just a registry...
Kit: Am I the only one who's read X-Men and realizes why this is a bad idea? — Cassandra Clare

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past. — Arthur Golden