Friends Are Like Gems Quotes & Sayings

We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it. — Jon Ronson

People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers. — Martha Manning

Two hundred pounds of male muscle was on her bed, which she could honestly say was a first. The fact that he was large and muscular wasn't really the big deal, but the fact that he was male, because at twenty-eight years old, she was very unhappily a virgin. It was something that she'd definitely never expected to happen to her and the one thing that she would give anything to change. — R.L. Mathewson

Assassins: they got sass and live on sin. — Natalya Vorobyova

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. — Karl Marx

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started. — Jonathan Tropper

I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride. — Henry Rollins

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home. — Charles Evans Hughes

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter. — Lois McMaster Bujold

And here I want to interject and say that Heidegger is an absolute occasionalist and has no theory of time despite "time" being included in the title Being and Time — Bruno Latour

I just inhaled kimchi ramen. Nose on fire. Next chapter may be obscured by tears. — MCM

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! — Confucius