James Monroe Favorite Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/. — Mark Forsyth

Punishment - shaming a person, caging them, making them unemployable - traps them in addiction. Taking that money and spending it instead on helping them to get jobs and homes and decent lives makes it possible for many of them to stop. — Johann Hari

Grim, wait. Are you sure you'll be all right?"
Grimalkin smiled. "I am a cat."
And, just like that, he was gone. — Julie Kagawa

Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends. — Richard Hastings

When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I offer my shoulders back to the dance, my elbows, my hands, my spine, my knees, my feet, my whole self, my bones, my blood, my experience, my suffering ... I offer it all back to the dance and I say: take it, do whatever you want with me. Release me. — Gabrielle Roth

Sociology should ... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action. — Talcott Parsons