Gated Irrigation Quotes & Sayings

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is. — Joan D. Chittister

. . . I surround myself with all the things that bring out the best in me---and I avoid the things that don't. — Ruby Rose

When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways. — Stephen Graham Jones

I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong. — Candace Bushnell

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. — Michael Pollan

These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office:

"What is the knocking?
What is the knocking at the door in the night?
It is somebody wants to do us harm.

No, no, it is the three strange angels.
Admit them, admit them."

I under[stand] that failure is surely one of these strange angels. — Anne Lamott

I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself
like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was. — Whitney Houston

Their separation was becoming intolerable. "I would rather die!" said Emma. She was writhing in his arms, weeping. "Adieu! adieu! When shall I see you again? — Gustave Flaubert

A nuclear program has arguably worked as a deterrent for North Korea and other states - would Moammar Gadhafi have been deposed and summarily killed if Libya had had nuclear weapons? Iranians might not think so. — Richard Engel

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice. — Alfred Thayer Mahan

I watched the first shoots
like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart
broken by the blight, the black spot so quickly
multiplying in the rows. I doubt
you have a heart, in our understanding of
that term. You who do not discriminate
between the dead and the living, who are, in consequence,
immune to foreshadowing ... — Louise Gluck

Hurry up!" said a ghoul.
who started to yawn.
"There's so much to do
before bedtime at dawn. — Natasha Wing