Eleversity Quotes & Sayings

A night of carousing never passed without me stepping outside the experience to think, Yes, this must be what it is to be young. — Lena Dunham

Xiii- men must ... find their way from false to true consciousness, from their immediate to their real interest. They can do so only if they live in need of changing their way of life, of denying the positive, of refusing, it is precisely this need which the established society manages to repress using the scientific conquest of nature for the scientific conquest of man.
Xvi-the technological society is a system of domination. — C. Wright Mills

The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands. — Stacy Schiff

The field has never been highly regarded; for a long time the only friends that Poe and Lovecraft had were the French, who have somehow come to an arrangement with both sex and death, an arrangement that Poe and Love-craft's fellow Americans certainly had no patience with. The Americans were busy building railroads, and Poe and Lovecraft died broke. — Stephen King

I'm too set in my ways to start doing the right thing," he complained. "You're a bad influence, Horace. — John Flanagan

All songwriters are links in a chain. — Pete Seeger

If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it. — Anton Corbijn

Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them, to ask His guidance upon our nation and its leaders in every level of government. — George W. Bush

Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen. — Leon Trotsky

It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me. — Tony Dorsett

His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city, and all it's lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world. — Cassandra Clare

I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer. — Miriam Toews

Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness. — Pope Benedict XVI

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world. — Karin Slaughter

I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else. — Jill Clayburgh