Fikare Quotes & Sayings

You're baloney without the mayo. — Frank Zappa

Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define. — Pearl Cleage

I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked.
"Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically.
"She burns. — John Kennedy Toole

There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not being doted upon by parents. For any child, that's the bottom line. The fact is that a human child wants that mommy or daddy or both. — Melissa Fay Greene

And what's wrong with innocence, anyway? Huh? I don't get it. I grew up with no innocence. None. From day one, I was contaminated with the 'real world' and you know what? It sucked. It royally sucked." - Harper Bailey, Callum & Harper — Fisher Amelie

-(I)n memory, remorse wraps the self. — Claudia Rankine

Jerome was a marvelous advocate of chastity: yet hear his confession: "O, how often have I thought myself to be in the midst of the vain delights and pleasures of Rome, even when I was in the wild wilderness." Again, "I, who for fear of hell had condemned myself to such a prison, thought myself oftentimes to be dancing among young women, when I had no other company, but scorpions and wild beasts. My face was pale with fasting, but my mind was inflamed with desires in my cold body: and although my flesh was half-dead already, yet the flames of fleshly lust, boiled within me, etc. — Martin Luther

If one wants to keep one's self straight, one has to work hard at it, one way or the other. I suppose it all comes from the fall of Adam. — Anthony Trollope

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps ... — Alexander Grothendieck

Open the mind to be on a path to a better version of yourself. — Pearl Zhu

it seems to me that, on balance, soul/body dualism has been the enemy of compassion. For instance, the moral stigma that still surrounds disorders of mood and cognition seems largely the result of viewing the mind as distinct from the brain. When the pancreas fails to produce insulin, there is no shame in taking synthetic insulin to compensate for its lost function. — Sam Harris

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules. — Lionel Shriver

Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye. — Steven Pressfield

Life is a gift. If we don't live it well, we are being ungrateful. And we have to love the ones who journey with us. (A Nail Through the Heart) — Timothy Hallinan