Ilakkaya Quotes & Sayings

Maybe perversion was not illness at all. Maybe every form of deviance was just a potential force of union and community, one that had not yet organized itself into political lobbies, self-help groups, bowling leagues ... Once you grant legitimacy to one sexual proclivity, what's to stop the others from demanding their rights too? — Supervert

I must say that I think all this doctrine, that hell-fire is a punishment for sin, is a doctrine of cruelty. It is a doctrine that put cruelty into the world and gave the world generations of cruel torture; and the Christ of the Gospels, if you could take Him as His chroniclers represent Him, would certainly have to be considered partly responsible for that. — Bertrand Russell

A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed. — Lou Costello

Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!' — Michael Keaton

'Miss Marple' enjoys every minute of her existence and is not worried about getting old. — Geraldine McEwan

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. — Brendan Behan

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character. — Frederick Lenz

I smile bitterly. "Let's not forget who killed her. You destroy all that you touch."
"Well," he whispers back, returning my smile. "Then we have much in common. — Marie Lu

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo

We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles? — Danah Zohar

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity. — William Shakespeare

Every thing was a friend, or bore her thoughts to a friend; and though there had been sometimes much of suffering to her- though her motives had been often misunderstood, her feelings disregarded, and her comprehension under-valued; though she had known the pains of tyranny, of ridicule, and neglect, yet almost every recurrence of either had led to something consolatory ... and the whole was now so blended together, so harmonised by distance, that every former affliction had its charm. — Jane Austen

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good. — James Hunter

You make it sound as if I hit her. I did nothing to Edie!'
'Oh? You did nothing? The woman I found in your wake, stripped of all self-repsect, convinced that she was a failure as a mother and a lover: that wasn't your work? Because I think it was! — Eloisa James

She would never be the best Janissary, because she would never be a Janissary. She could never be powerful on her own, because she would always be a woman. — Kiersten White