Field Training Manual Quotes & Sayings

The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small. — Audrey Niffenegger

I can't help but think that the way we punctuate now is the right way - that we are living in a punctuation renaissance. — Mary Norris

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. — Theodor Adorno

Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.
Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking variety is a sign of impotence. — Honore De Balzac

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.' — Priscilla Ahn

In a blind taste, balsamic vinegar actually makes it taste better). — Dan Ariely

What science cannot explain is the psychic effect of this 'mother of all plants,' the sense of the numinous and the spiritual world it reportedly opens up. Those who drink say that each ayahuasca journey is unique. They say that the spirit of the vine comes alive, it guides and teaches, and on the other side nothing is ever the same. Or so they say. — Rak Razam

As I look back on my life, I understand now that there were some very important moments when my unanswered prayer was actually God's greatest blessing — Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained ... so long as it's not something you have to do every game. — James Worthy

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover. — Hermann Hesse

I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done. — Tess Gallagher