Fiftyshot Quotes & Sayings

What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.


— Barbara Strickland

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. — John Stuart Mill

A Remedy for Insomnia
Not sheep coming down the hills,
not cracks on the ceiling
count the ones you loved,
the former tenants of dreams
who would keep you awake,
once meant the world to you,
rocked you in their arms,
those who loved you ...
You will fall asleep, by dawn, in tears. — Vera Pavlova

Earth natives didn't absorb everything from the forms they had chosen over the long years the sun had risen and set over Namid. They were first and always terra indigene. But they learned from the predators they became, and certain traits were passed down to the young of each form. Yes, — Anne Bishop

In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion. — Gunnar Myrdal

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion. — Rafael Sabatini

Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times ... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them). — Vladimir Nabokov

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism. — Thomas Sowell

Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some points in time cannot flow. Think of those big-ticket moments, the ones you could still recite from fifth grade: your 1492 and Civil Wars, the Titanic and presidential assassinations. These are icebergs, solid and immense, forcing incalculable eddies to swirl around them. — Thomm Quackenbush

If everyone was satisfied with themselves there would be no heroes. — Robin S. Sharma

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river. — Nostradamus

How do I write the stories I do? Honestly I just make sh** up!"
-Erin Rambeau — Erin Rambeau