Griefes Quotes & Sayings

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove. — George Herbert

On the first day of the arts and crafts class i had nothing really prepared, so i asked everyone to draw themselves. When i looked at the drawings i felt faint. All of the students were Black, yet the drawings depicted a lot of blond-haired, blue-eyed little white children. I was horrified. — Assata Shakur

It is only after surrendering what we think our lives are supposed to be that we can step into everything that our lives are meant to be. — Mandy Hale

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. — Audre Lorde

If I could have you after every nightmare, I'd have ten a night. — Sandra Brown

"Was it okay?" he asked.
I smiled. "Better than okay."
"So I won my pass to date two?"
"You did."
"Good"
His face lowered toward mine and I knew what was coming. I knew it. But when his lips touched mine, I still jumped.
"S-sorry, I - I"
"Skittish as a cat," he murmured. — Kelley Armstrong

All griefes with bread are lesse. — George Herbert

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. — Ruth Hubbard

Capital is process, and that is that. — David Harvey

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach. — Moby

Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy, wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone that we'll use the moment it comes close enough. — Orson Scott Card

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue. — David Tudor