Ladored Quotes & Sayings

Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps. Individuals play for time. — Gregory Maguire

Sex is hardly ever just about sex. — Shirley Maclaine

They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. — Ilka Chase

she'd wager that they weren't single moms who'd had to poke the radiator vents with a yardstick at 3:00 a.m. to prove that there weren't any snakes hiding in the dark tunnels. — Jodi Picoult

And I want you to notice that one of them, one of the men almost has his tongue hanging out like he's licking his chops. Like this baby is ours now. And that's fine. You may call that love. But it looks to me a little bit like lust. And when they crave to bring the children of heterosexual couples through adoption into their homes, so that they can raise them in the homosexual lifestyle. And studies now show, that up to 20% kids raised by gay couples become gay themselves. It is a recruiting tool. And it is a child abuse tool. — Gordon Klingenschmitt

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s. — Alanis Morissette

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock. — Maria Bartiromo

In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand biscuits, and twenty-nine sides of beef, he goes through the Bible and writes down a bunch of verses commanding him to be willing to cheerfully give all that stuff away. My firkin is your firkin being one of Christianity's primary creeds. — Sarah Vowell

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government. — Alexander Hamilton

If you need a reference point, she was created in a grandma lab somewhere by crossing the DNA of Mary Poppins, Jack Black, Julia Child and Desmond Tutu. — Scott Dannemiller

The hidden clash of a silent conflict like this is far harder to bear than an open quarrel. — Rabindranath Tagore

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time. — Sarah Dessen

His worst nightmare had become real; life was no more than a fragile breath, a fleeting instant od light in the eternal darkness of time — Jose Rodrigues Dos Santos