Emancipating Def Quotes & Sayings

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision. — Jeannette Rankin

The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence. — Erma Bombeck

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. — Neil Jackson

Enjoy now, another now is coming. — Thomas Roberts

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. — Fannie Hurst

And still Eden was avoiding him like he was a Bieber fan at a Korn concert. — Samantha Young

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement. — Terry Teachout

There was nothing more unattractive than narcissism, she thought: nothing could transform beauty into a cloying, unattractive quality than that self-conscious appreciation of self. — Alexander McCall Smith

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes. — Joe Garagiola

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away. — Mario Monti

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a standup comedian, so I need people. — Chelsea Handler

. . . be suspicious of any [theological] position that fulfills all our heart's desires. — William E. Hordern

History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots. — Michel-Rolph Trouillot

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme. — J.G. Ballard