Lenient Means Quotes & Sayings

Time itself is one more name for death. — C.S. Lewis

He's been so changeable with her I'm surprised he's not been accepted to Hogwarts for his transfiguration skills. — Holly Bourne

Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed harsh restrictions on abortion. After measuring the difference between the Massachusetts electorate and the national one to which he must now appeal, he has reversed those positions. — Stephen Kinzer

I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn. — Victor Hugo

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine

He's wearing flannel!" Alan yelped. "He's shoving his straight in my face! — K.D. Sarge

We came to this world with nothing but love and blessing. The purpose of our life is to be happy by loving and serving. — Debasish Mridha

Every pain is repeated in other places and other lives, every joy is repeated in other places and other lives. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

The audience
the book's actual cast
quickly realized what had happened. The reason the movie dropped everything that made the novel real was because there was no way the parents who ran the studio would ever expose their children in the same black light the book did. The movie was begging for our sympathy whereas the book didn't give a shit. And attitudes about drugs and sex had shifted quickly from 1985 to 1987 (and a regime change at the studio didn't help) so the source material
surprisingly conservative despite its surface immorality
had to be reshaped. — Bret Easton Ellis

The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own. — Matt Groening

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality. — Ken Goldberg