Gumilev Giraffe Quotes & Sayings

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination. — Mary Daly

When he came in sight of the prisoner he stopped short. The man sat with his hands bound behind him, securely strapped into a seat and guarded by two Yellow Squad troopers, a big fellow and a thin woman who made Mark think of a snake, all sinuous muscle and unblinking beady eyes. The prisoner looked a striking forty or so years of age, and wore a torn brown silk tunic and trousers. Loose strands of dark hair escaped from a gold ring on the back of his head and fell about his face. He did not struggle, but sat calmly, waiting, with a cold patience that quite matched the snake-woman's. Bharaputra. The Bharaputra, Baron Bharaputra, Vasa Luigi himself. The man hadn't changed a hair in the eight years since Mark had last glimpsed him. Vasa — Lois McMaster Bujold

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races ... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas ... — Abraham Lincoln

CNN, a part of the Time Warner company, lives for news about everything and anyone. In the office, the bosses openly discuss the need for a diverse staff and diverse stories, and each time we draw new viewers, the effort intensifies. — Soledad O'Brien

Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments. — Heber J. Grant

We come to God by love and not by navigation. — Saint Augustine

Scotsman's way of dealing with death. He'd found — Ian Rankin

That's what I love about boys," Marion told him. "No matter what, you just go about your business. — John Irving

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully. — Haruki Murakami

Your purpose of life is not to find a job, but to find what you love and do it with all your heart. — Debasish Mridha

Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye. — Ray Bradbury

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love ... — Leonard Cohen

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility. — Leo Rosten