Engendering Democracy Quotes & Sayings

[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it enough to defend it with reasons and refute the objections. Some people even go so far as to consider prohibited or confiscated books to be the best ones of all, for the prohibition indicates that their authors wrote what they really thought rather than what they were supposed to think ... — Laszlo Radvanyi

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable. — Anne Rice

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor. — Sherri Shepherd

When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise. — Natasha Henstridge

Your heart is able to see things that your eyes aren't able to. — Kholoud Yasser

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds. — Hilaire Belloc

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves. — William James

I usually say that love and kindness are a universal religion. — Dalai Lama XIV

Sigh. These were my people now that I was a writer, people who didn't understand anything. I mean, they understood perfectly the thing I cared most about - books - but basically were moron-level elsewhere. — Claire Dederer

Not all scars show. Not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can't see, the pain someone feels. — Lisa French

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason. — Lin Yutang

The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you. — Pauline Reage

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper. — T. S. Eliot

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead — Gelett Burgess

A girl could forget her precise location in the universe when a man looked at her with eyes like those. — Julie Anne Long