Lekterna Quotes & Sayings

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. — Richard Dawkins

Don't get me started on cold toilet seats. — Zach Braff

James's general position on the difference between the sexes, which was that woman is "by nature inferior to man. She is man's inferior in passion, his inferior in intellect, and his inferior in physical strength"; she is, very properly, her husband's "patient and unrepining drudge, his beast of burden, his toilsome ox, his dejected ass, his cook, his tailor, his own cheerful nurse and the sleepless guardian of his children." But their inferiority, James thought, is precisely what makes women attractive to men, so that any "great development of passion or intellect in woman is sure to prejudice" male attention. "Would any man fancy a woman after the pattern of Daniel Webster?"33 He consequently opposed serious education for women, a doctrine that had disastrous consequences in the case of his youngest child and only daughter, Alice. — Louis Menand

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself — Otto Weininger

The Buddha's last words instructed us to be heedful - to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times. — Thanissaro Bhikkhu

If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness. — Mindy Kaling

I think there's a little me hiding behind your leg, Chichi."
"I'm Goten."
"I'm Goku. Hi!"
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"Daddy! — Akira Toriyama

I've always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair. — Anne Frank

When are you coming back?" he'd demanded as he'd watched her throw her clothes into two suitcases and head for the door.
"When you get some help with your drinking." He didn't need any help. He drank fine without it. — B. J. Daniels

You might have mentioned this to me Molly," said Leonard. "The fact that there are hostile natives on the island."
"I forgot," said Molly.
"You forgot?" said Leonard.
"There's been a lot happening," said Molly. — Dave Barry

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem. — Bill McCollum

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart. — Gillian Jacobs

Fine, I'll touch you, briefly, but only because you sound like you need the praise that your body's hot, and I'm totally selfless like that. — Kyle Adams

I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses. — Andy Warhol