Journalizing And Posting Quotes & Sayings

a very substantial and growing inequality of capital income since 1980 accounts for about one-third of the increase in income inequality in the United States - a far from negligible amount. — Thomas Piketty

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be. — John Stuart Mill

Make peace your purpose in the garden of life. — Debasish Mridha

It seems to me that an often quiet, but often palpable presiding image here ... is the interpretive absorption of the child or adolescent whose sense of personal queerness may or may not (yet?) have resolved ... Such a child - if she reads at all - is reading for important news about herself, without knowing what form that news will take; with only the patchiest familiarity with its codes; without, even, more than hungrily hypothesizing to what questions this news may proffer an answer. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives. — Val McDermid

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air. — Alex Chiu

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people. — George Edward Moore

I'm not leaving you. I'm just not going to sneak around with you. You have a life." She bit her lip, looking down. "I don't blame you for that. But - " "I know," I said, feeling as if my heart was breaking open in my chest. "We deserve more than that. — Mia Sheridan

This brutal man is my home. His hell is my heaven. I'm his Ivory, and he's my darkest note. — Pam Godwin