Quotes & Sayings About Hester Prynne Committing Adultery

The desire for liberation arises in human beings at the end of many births, through the ripening of their past virtuous conduct. — Anonymous

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. — Oliver Stone

When I sleep with someone, I need it to mean something. I need to know someone would look me in the eye and be there the next day, and the next week, and the next month. I'm not stupid - I know it doesn't always mean forever, but you have to at least think it could be forever. There's a possibility of forever before you even touch, or you're just touching to hurt yourself. I can't be just a quick fuck in the bathroom. — Amy Lane

Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized. — Padma Lakshmi

He borrowed from others in order to make an impression on others. There's your actual selflessness. It's his ego that he's betrayed and given up. But everybody calls him selfish. — Ayn Rand

Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."
I still.
"I can't stomach your pain," he says. "I can feel it so strongly and it's making me crazy- please," he says to me. "Don't be sad. Or hurt. Or guilty. You've done nothing wrong."
"I'm sorry-"
"Don't be sorry, either," he says. "God, the only reason I'm not going to kill Kent for this is because I know it would only upset you more. — Tahereh Mafi

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something. — Alan King

faith that's primarily intellectual - that is, a matter of mastering information - is deceptively fragile. — Rod Dreher

We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity,; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have is yet another excuse! — Adriano Bulla

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. — Flannery O'Connor

Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that. — Matt Bomer

You might be a wallflower," he agreed, "but there's more to you, isn't there?"
"Why would you say that?"
"In my experience, the quietest women tend to be the most adventurous. There's a wildness that they let no one see. — Michelle Willingham

When I believe in something, I support it fully. On that note, I totally don't support Velcro shoes. — Ashley Rickards