Hate Texting First Quotes & Sayings

You know, Monsieur, that Age is always a ticklish subject with a Woman. Come! come! — Matthew Gregory Lewis

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought. — Mark Kingwell

his shattered arm. Dirty Jim ripped open the wounded man's shirt. — R.G. Robertson

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. — W. Somerset Maugham

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter. — Nicholas Royle

Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny. — Mary C. Ames

Moreover, I am aware that most of the irreligious deny the existence of God, and the distinctness of the human soul from the body, for no other reason than because these points, as they allege, have never as yet been demonstrated. — Rene Descartes

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop. — Baratunde Thurston

First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier. — Neal Shusterman

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case ... — Tupac Shakur

There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started. — John F. Kerry

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you. — A.J. Darkholme

The writing process is like developing a photograph; you never know what will turn out. There's nothing like penning a frame, and giving the story world permission to unfold as I witness the picture come into focus. — Paige Crutcher

It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That's wrong and we should stop it. — William J. Clinton

Switchback"

turn, turn,
and again,
hard scrabble
steep travel
ahead. — Gary Snyder