Helvidius Quotes & Sayings

Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Ah! thus man spoils Heaven's glorious works with blood! — Charlotte Turner Smith

Park's eyes got wide. well, sort of wide. Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time. — Rainbow Rowell

No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you! — Salvatore Quasimodo

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey

There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective. — Thalia

[T]hey gave thanks that they were permitted to see so much, and begged for forgiveness for their desire to see more. — Ted Chiang

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

For a moment, sincere human fury had burned through the training, touched a hot core of genuine rage. He felt shaken, but more whole, more truly himself, then he'd been for years. — Bruce Sterling

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. — Julie Newmar