Jamanishepeard Quotes & Sayings

Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife. — Jeffrey Eugenides

On the one hand, any analysis which foregrounds one vector of power over another will doubtless become vulnerable to criticisms that it not only ignores or devalues the others, but that its own constructions depend on the exclusion of the others in order to proceed. On the other hand, any analysis which
pretends to be able to encompass every vector of power runs the risk of a certain epistemological imperialism which consists in the presupposition
that any given writer might fully stand for and explain the complexities of contemporary power. No author or text can offer such a reflection of the world, and those who claim to offer such pictures become suspect by virtue of that very claim. — Judith Butler

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news. — Laura Dekker

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. — Lord Chesterfield

It will be difficult to help if you create a Culture of No, Diane. — Joseph Fink

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot). — Kurt Vonnegut

Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New. — Timothy Keller

Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions. — Stephen Richards

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction. — George W. Crane