Hollybeth Anderson Quotes & Sayings

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true. — Melinda Gates

Having a gut instinct that told me how to be a moral person might be evolutionarily handy. On the other hand, emotional moral judgment also enables people to do really horrible things to each other, like lynching or "honor" killings, and justify them by calling them "moral." Because sociopaths don't experience morality emotionally, I would argue that we are freed to be more rational and more tolerant. There is something to be said for the impartiality of pure reason - religion-created mass hysteria among the supposedly mentally healthy populace has resulted in much worse damage and carnage in the world than anything sociopaths have caused. (Although I imagine that there may sometimes be sociopaths at the head of it all, whipping up the masses to do their bidding.) — M.E. Thomas

I have often been called insane by those who underestimate the power of poetry. — Dan Simmons

Let your heart look
on white sea spray
and be lonely.
Love is a fool star.
You and a ring of stars
may mention my name
and then forget me.
Love is a fool star. — Carl Sandburg

You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same. — Fannie Flagg

Sedona is beautifeul, but your soul is beautiful than Sedona. — Ilchi Lee

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it. — Barbara Holland

The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much. — John D. Voelker

No longer were there "doctors" of anthropology and physics and literature to offend the real doctors and confuse the public; they had put a stop to that, as they had put a stop to so many things that were unseemly and inappropriate. — Suzette Haden Elgin

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. — Meryl Streep

We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space. — Alan Shepard

Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier. — Chico Buarque

Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body. — Prentice Mulford

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all. — Veronica Roth