Fx Vol Quotes & Sayings

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll

A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head lifted in a faint breeze. Out there the channel churned its cyclonic eddies counterclockwise. Schools of anchovies, halibut, and sea bass came and went: silver flashes, small storms that well up from the inside of the sea but are short-lived, like lightning. — Gretel Ehrlich

My breasts are small," I said in a whisper, but immediately despised myself because it sounded as if I were making excuses, excuse me if I can't offer you big tits, I hope you enjoy yourself anyway, idiot that I was, if he liked little tits, good; if not, the worse for him, it was all free, a stroke of luck had fallen to this shit, the best birthday present he could hope for, at his age. — Elena Ferrante

It made sense to Abdul that in a polyglot city, people would sort themselves as he sorted his garbage, like with like. — Katherine Boo

Accustomed, as it is, to think of man as a dualism of mind and body, and to regard the former as "sensible" and the latter as a "dumb" animal, our cultture is an affront to the wisdom of nature and a ruinous exploitation of the human organism as a whole. — Alan W. Watts

I can't tell you how many couples I know where the husband and the wife are both in the military and have deployed together, and they've got kids, and so I think times have changed and gender roles have blurred when it comes to the military. — Tanya Biank

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about. — Aravind Adiga

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind. — James Anthony Froude

America does not fight for land, glory or riches. — Virginia Foxx