Quotes & Sayings About Literature Reflecting Society

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject. — James Arthur

I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling. — Elle Macpherson

When you sit down around the table, it's a great time to catch up and share and talk about the day, and I think that can keep families connected and together. — Kimberly Schlapman

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together. — Celia Green

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. — Cornel West

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach ... — Charles Barkley

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self. — Iain Sinclair

When privacy is criminalized,
only criminals will have privacy. — Daniel Suarez

The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty. — Paul Watson

There is no joy greater than the triumph of living. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

There is too much at stake to worry about our own egos. When my son was killed, I had to face the fact that I was somehow also responsible for what happened. Every American that allows this to continue has, to some extent, blood on their hands. Some of us have a little bit, and some of us are soaked in it. — Cindy Sheehan

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true. — Wayne Dyer

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach. — Richard Brautigan

We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves - they're the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling, accidental universe tolerable. — Ken Liu

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived. — Jet Black