Ingetraud Siegrid Quotes & Sayings

Normal. She wanted normal and so did I. "You know what's normal?"
"What?" She wiped away her remaining tears. "Calculus. — Katie McGarry

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction. — Hallie Ephron

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself. — Patricia Briggs

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did. — Thomas Jefferson

Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap, the coffee, the rice, to iron the pants, to braid the hair, to pull the day's water up from the well, to boil water for tea, to wash the children for school, to pull the vegetables and start the walk to market, to run to catch the bus for the work that is paid. I don't know when most women sleep. — Adrienne Rich

Dwell on good thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why, then, are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years? — John Taylor Gatto

In other words, no matter how well documented or noble our cause is, it won't be helped by our feeling aggression toward the oppressors or those who are promoting the danger. Nothing will ever change through aggression. — Pema Chodron

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. — Brian D. McLaren

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? — Robin Hobb

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular. — H.L. Mencken

Make it look like your skin is not so angry at you for your bad life choices. — Jenna Marbles

Anything that kills hope is a sin. — Gayle Forman

A close union with the earth seemed to involve one in unison with a good deal more than the earth. — Elizabeth Goudge

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. — Karl Barth