Girlbomb Quotes & Sayings

If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me, — Jose Mujica

My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. Even within Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants. — Gerd R. Puin

Sometimes I even work out to 'Glee' songs to keep me going. — Jenna Ushkowitz

I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them (me in Girlbomb, Samantha in Have You Found Her, and Elizabeth in I, Liar) had some early family trauma that contributed to their dysfunctional methods of dealing with the world, but I wouldn't call them/myself victims - survivors, maybe, but not victims. Nor do I think of them/myself as con artists. — Janice Erlbaum

Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity - he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit. — H.L. Mencken

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer. — Dustin Hoffman

Why are there no handsome priest in Paris? One has no inclination to confess anything to an ugly man. — Andrew Miller

It's the future that we must always look to, in the hope that next time we will make the better choice. — J. Elizabeth Hill

I wish for frozen time, forgotten sins, and never-ending love. — E.K. Blair

Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds. — Alcee Hastings

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere. — Mas Oyama