Jyrki 69 Quotes & Sayings

What is the role of intellectuals in Europe? There's this debate in which all speakers do not appear to me to even be intellectuals. Why is Martin Sommers an intellectual? It is a political journalist who writes mediocre pieces. If that is sufficient to call yourself a 'European intellectual then the question of the debate has already become rhetorical. — Martijn Benders

I shouldn't be doing this, he thought. She is actually a nice person. for a moment he had an impulse to embrace her. He had a stronger impulse to beat her. — Mary Gaitskill

Life goes on, even when you think it shouldn't. In the morning, the sun will come up, no matter how hard you wish for it to stay down. — Cindy C. Bennett

Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy. — Mark Deklin

My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't. — Anthony Venn-Brown

The roses once grew there, and well their lives conceal; the ivy cobbled up their voices, and made me not to feel. — Amy N. Edwards

When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows. — Ogwo David Emenike

I love Colorado. The mountains are so passionate. They just make me want to run to the top and yell obscene things to the valleys below." ~ Ardith — Jocelyn Davies

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings — Ursula K. Le Guin

In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again. — Pope Sixtus V

I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls - I was chasing girls all the time - and so I thought if I join it, there might be some love scenes. And there was a particular girl and I thought I might get to kiss Amy. I never did get to kiss Amy but I did get to kiss Elizabeth Taylor, so it was all right, a lot later. — Michael Caine

I am Celaena Sadorthein and I will be not afraid — Sarah J. Maas

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve. — Jacques Barzun

I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility. — Alex Sink

I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men ... — Adrienne Rich