Intelestream Quotes & Sayings

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb. — Hyman George Rickover

And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation. — Henry Miller

Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping. — Doug Dillon

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well. — Marcel Carne

Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-child are discouraged by a cold reception. After a few years the child never sees her again. The mother expects to take her place, and to repair by her cruelty the results of her own neglect. But she is greatly mistaken; she is making an ungrateful foster-child, not an affectionate son; she is teaching him ingratitude, and she is preparing him to despise at a later day the mother who bore him, as he now despises his nurse. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Suffer you will, one way or another — Nilesh Rathod

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea. — Neil Gaiman

I can't go through you walking out on me again," he said. "I've got skin tougher than a rhinoceros hide, but I've always been a big weakling when it comes to you. If you want back into my life, it has to be for good this time." "For better or for worse, for richer or poorer . . . is that what you mean?" "Till death do us part. Yeah, that's what I'm getting at." Her face was beautiful and shining and confident. "That's what I want too. — Elizabeth Camden

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women? — Joan Kirner

When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape. — Bell Hooks

In fact, her whole life, she'd done her absolute best to do the right thing. It was wonderful to be wildly, romantically in love at sixteen. But life wasn't romantic — Jennifer Greene

Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears. — Alice Hoffman

Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning. — Bailee Madison

Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue. — Dalai Lama

It was summer again, and the summer nights smelled like murdered grass and sounded like crickets fucking. — Lev Grossman