Jourdemayne Quotes & Sayings

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs. — Damien Fahey

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance. — Edward Snowden

The night has a thousand eyes and the day only one. — Francis William Bourdillon

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger. — Philippa Gregory

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. — Elizabeth Warren

When my mother died, I thought I'd drown in sorrow. But my grandmother said something very wise, and I've always held it close to my heart. She said that not even the sea is infinite, and neither is grief. — T. Frohock

It's not simply that these "cool dudes" deny climate science because it threatens to upend their dominance-based worldview. It is that their dominance-based worldview provides them with the intellectual tools to write off huge swaths of humanity, and indeed, to rationalize profiting from the meltdown. — Naomi Klein

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective. — Walter Kohn

Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like? — S. Jay Olshansky

God, I've missed you. — Cora Carmack

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see. — Philippa Gregory

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic. — Chris Christie

Quality is my principle and qualified is my attitude. — Laverne Cox

I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews. — Sloane Crosley