Kasongo Yeye Quotes & Sayings

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy. — E.L. Doctorow

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband. — Tammy Bruce

to order and that whole inner debate one usually has when ordering food at a restaurant would be vocalized and performed for the express purpose of filling space, of jamming the silence so full of meaningless idle chitchat that they'd never get around to talking about the thing they never talked about but were always thinking: that if they had been born into a generation that found divorce more acceptable, they would have left each other so long ago. For decades they had avoided this subject. It was like they'd come to an agreement - they were who they were, they were born when they were born, they were taught that divorce was wrong, and they openly disapproved of other couples, younger couples, who divorced, while secretly feeling bolts of envy at these couples' ability to split and remarry and become happy again. — Nathan Hill

He stayed on the balcony for a while, the throbbing energy of the chawls filling his veins as he watched traffic ebb and flow. Shutters veiled the shops on the ground floor across the lane, and only a few lights flickered here and there, probably other mill workers like his father.
(from Aam Papad) — Ken Doyle

She turns to me, and for a moment I fear she's turning into the She-Hulk. After a second, I realize that her eyes are just really green, kind of like two angry Life Savers. — Brian Katcher

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said? — Richard Russo

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life. — Alexandra Paul

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin

He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'. — Ahmad Ibn Rustah

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd. — Nicholas Sparks

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself. — Fanny Fern