Leisuring Quotes & Sayings

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed. — Douglas Adams

We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even more secure against even court orders authorising law enforcement to have access. — William Bratton

Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life ... — Robert Bridges

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is. — Nicolas Chamfort

And then what do I do? Joyce asked, her voice suddenly pinched. — Anita Diamant

Second chances are not the same as forgiveness. — Erin Bowman

That could have happened, really, it could have, if he hadn't shoved his muzzle into her crotch. Her breath swooshed out of her as she stood there in shock. He. Was. Sniffing. Her. Pussy. And she didn't know what to do. — Milly Taiden

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong. — Sarah Gilbert

I'm a great fan of Woody Allen's movies. — Arnaud Desplechin

She unfolds the piece of paper in her hands and she reads again the story written on it. — Ali Smith

Bloodless revolutions are rare. — Bill Maher

[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world. — Nina Totenberg

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her. — Robin McLeavy