Henslow Knife Quotes & Sayings

In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right. — Tariq Ali

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. — Abraham Lincoln

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both. — Patricia Schroeder

We are built to be dupes for theories. But theories come and go; experience stays. Explanations — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren't in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician. — Anjelica Huston

Even when he was gone, some fragment of his spirit lingered behind. — Stephanie Perkins

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan ... The Ku Klux's gone ... It'll never come back. — Harper Lee

Loving another person is taking a giant leap of faith. It's being vulnerable at the most basic level. It's like taking your heart out of your chest and chucking it off a cliff, hoping that someone is waiting at the bottom with open arms to catch it. — J. Sterling

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm's length. — Christophe Agou

This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked.

Redeeming social value, indeed. — Simon Sheppard