Fosses Septiques Quotes & Sayings

The man who would prefer great wealth or strength more than love, more than friends, is diseased of soul. — Euripides

The amount of new lending was mind-boggling: between 2003 and 2005, outstanding mortgage debt in America grew by $3.7 trillion, which was roughly equal to the entire value of all American real estate in the year 1990 ($3.8 trillion). In other words, Americans in just two years had borrowed the equivalent of two hundred years' worth of savings. — Matt Taibbi

I became a vegetarian for about maybe a year. It was more of a little detox for me. I tend to do a lot of detoxes. I was on the Body Ecology Diet before I got pregnant, which I believe is one of the reasons I was able to get pregnant. — Tia Mowry

St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn't. — Simon Schama

Your feelings are none of your business. — Annie Dillard

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled: and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry; saying, 'What shall I do?' — John Bunyan

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over. — Charles Dickens

She thinks she is white,' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse. — Tsitsi Dangarembga

What are we going to do about this mess?" asked Riley, staring at the large pile of dirt and melted table. "I didn't see anything," said Jess. "The truth is out there," added Lindy. "Trust no one," I muttered. — Rose Montague

We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States. — Theodore Roosevelt