Empowered Consumerism Quotes & Sayings

If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen ... where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him. — Keith Green

Many religions start with the notion that the deity is male and that, therefore, males are superior to women. This irrational idea informs boys' sexual map as they grow into men and breeds ideas such as the following: women are subservient to men; men have control over women's bodies; and men are more intelligent and closer to their god. — Darrel Ray

Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you. — Ralph Fletcher

People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But — Rachel Cohn

They're like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can't have just one. — Steve Berry

He was a man. Handsome as sin, arrogant as fuck, and in need of at least one woman to prove he wasn't God's gift to their sex. — Melissa Blue

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country. — Dominic Raab

Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell. — Maureen Johnson

You feel strangely empowered when you realize that most of what you're told matters, only matters to those trying to sell you shit. — Russell Blake

Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life. — Taylor Swift

Poets are sitting in my kitchen.
Why do these poets lie?
Why do children get children and
Did you hear what it said? — Anne Sexton

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry ... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. — Philip Sidney

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery. — Rob Bignell, Editor

You are no more responsible for what that man said than I am. You cannot take the blame for another's actions. — Kristi Ann Hunter

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man. — Augustus