Hamvai B Tor Quotes & Sayings

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson

He could have swept me into his arms, kissed my mouth in a fit of passion, and begged me to be his bride, and whatever deep thirst I had hidden in the heart of me still would not be slaked. Amazing, unfathomable man that he was, I had hoped that he could breathe life into me. It took the touch of his lips to convince me that he was only a man.
True, he stirred something in me- sweetly, tenderly, even graciously- but when his kindness brushed up against my soul, it did not begin to ease the ache of the seemingly bottomless fissure that still gaped. — Nicole Baart

You grow up. You move on. You find someone new. And for God's sake, you don't ask the first woman who lets you fuck her to marry you. — Tiffany Reisz

Development of the love of the beautiful, such as might have made him a poet, a painter, or a sculptor, and which was — Nathaniel Hawthorne

And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants. — Aristotle.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom. — Jane Roberts

Every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment). — G.M. Malliet

The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die. — Swami Vivekananda

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip. — Katherine Heigl

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip

Sixteen, I reflected, biting into a stolen pie. By this time in her life, my sister Mary had been pregnant. Ovid had dedicated his life to poetry. Queen Elizabeth had seen a suitor beheaded. Romeo and Juliet were dead. Whereas I, Margaret Lucas, was nothing if not in health, no single true adventure to my name. — Danielle Dutton