Lenski Sociologist Quotes & Sayings

Blood always weighed the heaviest when it belonged to someone else. — Abbie Chandler

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. — Marilyn Nelson

I distrust anything that you don't hear. — Leo Ornstein

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions. — Linda Lingle

I am delighted if people find that kind of sustenance in novels, but perhaps it's because they don't read the Scripture that they are comparing it to, which would perhaps provide deeper sustenance than many contemporary novels. — Marilynne Robinson

If Europe could figure out a way to do the euro, I feel confident we can do this. — Mindy Kaling

She lay in bed, naked because her body had become an unfamiliar possession, too precious for the touch of a nightgown, because it gave her pleasure to feel naked and to feel as if the white sheets of her bed were touched by Francisco's body - when she thought that she would not sleep, because she did not want to rest and lose the most wonderful exhaustion she had ever known ... — Ayn Rand

Ah, I feel a sadness on me, Dane. That's how the Irish people say it. In their language, you can't say, "I am sad," or "I am happy". They understood what we English have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes. — Grant Morrison

A good submissive does not surrender too easily. There would be no fun in that — Veronica J. Dantes

My goodness, you're 60 already, already
Time is a thief
But still, you're only as old as your tongue
And a little bit older than your teeth
Have a wonderful birthday — John Walter Bratton

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit. — Jamie Redknapp

The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said, "Here art thou!" The question and the cry, "Oh, where?" melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance, "I am!" XIII — Rabindranath Tagore

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think. — James Randi