Machinations Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know. — Marc Wallice

What did I tell you when you were little girl? The only way we women can get through our lives honorably is with courage and resignation, both.
~168 — Lynne Reid Banks

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him. — Dean Koontz

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization. — Anais Nin

When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement. — Roxane Gay

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it. — Andrea Corr

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood. — Ibn Taymiyyah

The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on. — Theresa Sjoquist

The wars around the globe into which religion is woven
violence that over the past two decades has sent many tens of thousands of men, women, and children to terrible deaths in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, India, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and the United States
deeply threaten what we have of a human society. Denouncing religion itself is futile. And such simple reactions badly miss the point. It is among the religious believers that the work must be done, within that overwhelming majority who would find common ground in being human and not wanting destruction, if only because their traditions are about so much more. Those traditions contain life-giving possibilities, even if the worst demagogues would try to twist dogma so hard as to wring poison from it. — Gustav Niebuhr