Gemeine Wespe Quotes & Sayings

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward ... once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it. — Barbara Gittings

It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust. — Mark Helprin

I'm a human being, I'm not anyone's mascot! And I am America's conscience. And that's what they don't want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government. — Russell Means

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Generally, I am opposed to vandalism. But I am also generally opposed to Lacey Pemberton- and in the end, that proved to be the more deeply held conviction. — John Green

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. — Philip Sidney

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems. — Cate Marvin

Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men. — Amity Shlaes

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one. — Sue Monk Kidd

I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to try and drown myself in the bath. You have to do that. And the impulse is to rescue yourself and to spare the reader, but I can't rescue myself. And why should I spare the reader when nobody spared me? It's telling people what happened. — Damian Barr

So listen
one way to lower the flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice it's original height. — David Foster Wallace

All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them. — Oswald Chambers

The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness. — Kenneth Lee Pike