Jostien Quotes & Sayings

We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town. — Stephen Vincent Benet

I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of. — Frances Moore Lappe

I claimed myself and remade my life. — Dorothy Allison

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit. — George Osborne

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness. — L.M. Montgomery

If Jesus Christ isn't strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don't know Him at all. — Paul Washer

Bedroom games. That's all it is. But they're serious, and when played right, everyone wins." He — C.D. Reiss

You need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky ... — John Geddes

Clinginess seriously clashes with my current desire to be unattached. — Jessica N. Watkins

When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.' — Robert Powell

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon. — David Talbot

Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words.
"That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful. — Melina Marchetta

People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong. — Alice Miller