Luker Quotes & Sayings

Fools are without number. — Desiderius Erasmus

Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see the very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light. — Kristin Luker

Alcoholism is a disease," she said. "Like athlete's foot. Or herpes. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Luker and I have lots of friends who are alcoholics. And speed freaks too." "Well, — Michael McDowell

She's got manners, but what has she got in the way of morals?" "Oh," said Luker blithely, "she and I don't have any morals. We have to get along with a scruple or two." "I — Michael McDowell

Communism is like one big phone company. — Lenny Bruce

A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that had never surfaced in the abortion debate before this, that abortion was a woman's right. Most significantly, they argued that this right to abortion was essential to their right to equality
the right to be treated as individuals rather than as potential mothers. — Kristin Luker

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change. — Nick Nolte

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood

There's a great expression that says, "God is a jealous lover," and it's a very accurate expression that has nothing to do with whatever you see god or nature as. — Ben Lee

This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination. — Melanie Ross

If they'd been on my wall while we were apart it would have hurt so much I would have gone fetal and subsisted entirely on Cap'n Crunch and self-pity. — Christina Lauren

Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities. — George Santayana

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay ... I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly. — Nancy Mitford

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic. — Gus Van Sant

We have to make up our minds to face everything with a positive attitude. When we don't, we lose moments of joy. — Staci Luker

Cynical realism - it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation — Aldous Huxley