Godchildren Day Quotes & Sayings

A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely without hope of getting a wife, a mistress, or any kind of woman except - very rarely, when he can raise a few shillings - a prostitute.
It is obvious what the results of this must be: homosexuality, for instance, and occasional rape cases. But deeper than these there is the degradation worked in a man who knows that he is not even considered fit for marriage. The sexual impulse, not to put it any higher, is a fundamental impulse, and starvation of it can be almost as demoralizing as physical hunger. The evil of poverty is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually. And there can be no doubt that sexual starvation contributes to this rotting process. Cut off from the whole race of women, a tramp feels himself degraded to the rank of a cripple or a lunatic. No humiliation could do more damage to a man's self-respect. — George Orwell

I pulled back the covers and leaped into the morning. — Kiera Cass

He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team. — George Steinbrenner

Can you believe that? She says I'm not leader enough for her. Who was she looking for ... Hitler? — Woody Allen

When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning. — Lord Chesterfield

Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers. — Pat Buchanan

What does 'poor' mean? No television?" Steve raised his eyebrows. "It means no money," said Bride. "Same thing," he answered. "No money, no television." "Means no washing machine, no fridge, no bathroom, no money!" "Money get you out of that Jaguar? Money save your ass? — Toni Morrison

Awareness is the eye through which we can experience abundance. — Shilpa Menon

So I now see upgrading as a type of hygiene: You do it regularly to keep your tech healthy. — Kevin Kelly