Lipinski Staffer Quotes & Sayings

I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers. — Peter Hedges

The problem (as I'd learned, repeatedly) was that thirty-six hours in, with your body in full revolt, and the remainder of your un-opiated life stretching out bleakly ahead of you like a prison corridor, you needed some fairly compelling reason to keep moving forward into darkness, rather than falling straight back into the gorgeous feather mattress you'd so foolishly abandoned. — Donna Tartt

I wondered how many people had sung By the dawn's early light' yesterday and were dead today. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad. — Terence

Yet how much slack do you give to what you believe is a lie, even a lie that holds steady the social order and braces up everything you have become accustomed to your most cherished image of yourself, your country, your loved ones, and the value you place on your work, your hobbies, your possessions, your "way of life"?

How much slack do you give to what you believe to be a lie before you say you have had it with lies, before you forsake everything to live with what you really think and feel about the way things are? How much slack? Answer: all the slack in the world. — Thomas Ligotti

I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands ... and not my own blood. — Mahatma Gandhi

Freelance isn't for everyone - you've got to be aggressive and enjoy working alone. But you could make more money than you ever imagined. — Nicole Williams

Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound. — Ted Alexandro

Cultural diversity and territorial flexibility give empires not only their unique character, but also their central role in history. It's thanks to these two characteristics that empires have managed to unite diverse ethnic groups and ecological zones under a single political umbrella, thereby fusing together larger and larger segments of the human species and of planet Earth. — Yuval Noah Harari

He loved her with all his soul, but in his own way, which was the correct way. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time. — Rita Mae Brown

Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and every one of us has the free will to choose not to hurt another human being. But it's not just morality that guides us. Biology does as well. Our frontal lobs helps us integrate thoughts and actions. They help us weight the consequences of those actions. Without such control, we'd give in to every wild impulse. — Tess Gerritsen

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers. — Philip Yancey