Glanda Mamara Quotes & Sayings

It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid that's what's going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, "Oh, it's not really religion." I mean they know they're lying, and yet they're the religious people. There's something wrong there. — Octavia Butler

The public be damned. — William Henry Vanderbilt

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty. — David Hume

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. — Jane Addams

Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass. — Clive Barker

I look in the mirror now, and even if I lost weight, there's just ... Theres' nothing I can do. It's over. My bodyness. My attractiveness in my body. I can diet forever but it will never make me like I was. — Elizabeth Berg

If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling radical decline, and that is not a position that conservation biologists want to be in. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Come! Come sit by me. It's a nice bench. Nice and lovely on the butt."
"You're drunk."
"Yeah, and you're ugly, but do I complain about it? No! Because I don't complain about things that I can't change. That's called intelligence. — Sara Wolf

Mom, I don't care if you're dating the guy who picks up our garbage, as long as he's nice to you. — Jaci Burton

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare

I don't want to be a saint, and would rather be a buffoon ... — Friedrich Nietzsche