Etwane Quotes & Sayings

Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind. — Thomas Huxley

Those lips had curved into a knowing half smile that did funny things to her insides. And like a match tossed to gasoline, her body sparked alive and flames licked every inch of her. — J. Lynn

One needn't identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world, The gospel is more than enough. Of course it is! But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti's future, and as long as I know that women are being abused and raped, as long as I know girls are being denied life itself through selective abortion, abandonment, and abuse, as long as brave little girls in Afghanistan are attacked with acid for the crime of going to school, and until being a Christian is synonymous with doing something about these things, you can also call me a feminist. — Sarah Bessey

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it. — Margaret Thatcher

One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain. — Mike Bond

One has to fabricate their own world, we must create the steps that will move us forward, that will pull us out of the well. Let's invent life, because it ends up becoming the truth. — Ana Maria Matute

Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on them arrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco we're after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning. — Tom Robbins

I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone. — Catherynne M Valente

I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being processed. — John Brockman

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck. — Drew Carey

I believe it is the woman in the relationship that drives the relationship to what she wants it to be — Lori Colombo-Dunham

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Pain is a blunt and non-specific diagnostic instrument. — John Green