Latitudinal Lines Quotes & Sayings

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge. — Veronica Roth

Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable. — Alix Kates Shulman

The search for love continued even in the face of great odds. — Bell Hooks

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off. — Pat Oliphant

If we constantly apply ourselves to meditation practice during the course of our lives, we may be able, though with some difficulty, to strip away all the supports that maintain the illusion of the ego-self. However, the material fabric of the ego's support-bot the world and the physical body-is destroyed by death and all contact with its "friends" is severed. Now the mind is truly left to its own devices and its experience of reality is much more direct and immediate. The worldly concerns which formerly served as the support of the ego have all been stripped away and the insubstantial nature of its condition has been exposed in all its falsity. It was never really real at all, and the awesome power of this truth may strike the consciousness like a bombshell! — Stephen Hodge

Music dispels misery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If, while writing your novel, it starts "speaking" to you, don't answer back, keep it talking. — David John Griffin

Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse, even with the certainty of a UK referendum following the negotiation, it is clear that there was no appetite amongst European leaders for anything more than a few minor concessions. — Andrea Leadsom

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. — Gertrude Stein

The effect of corruption I find most underacknowledged is a contraction not of economic possibility but of our moral universe. — Katherine Boo

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain. — Robert Southwell

Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible. — Irwin Kula

Holy water, a couple cloves of garlic, vials of salt, and iron fillings filled the basket, intended to be door prizes for anything that showed up in an attempt to suck my blood, carry me off to faerieland, or sell me stale cookies. — Jim Butcher

Wake up and smell the coffee. — Ann Landers

Lord Chesterfield designated ugly women as the third sex; how shall we place ugly men. — Anna Cora Mowatt