Malinterpretes Quotes & Sayings

In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Certain features of the society that are merely local and contingent, and maintained in existence only by the continual exercise of power, will come to seem as if they were universal, necessary, invariant, or natural features of all forms of human social life, or as if they arose spontaneously and uncoercedly by free human action. — Raymond Geuss

When people ask about relationships, they always say, "How did you guys meet?" Not, "OMG, tell me about your third year! And when a relationship is in trouble, the desperate couple is always trying to recapture the magic of when they first met. The real tragedy is that, without time travel or amnesia, it's impossible to ever get back there. Which is why to most people, marriage is about as magical as watching David Copperfield make Claudia Schiffer disappear. — Shane Kuhn

I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record. — Sam Rivers

You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad? — Rainer Maria Rilke

To fully understand another's views, you have to imagine yourself in their shoes. — Jonathan G. Meyer

One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. — Gloria Steinem

It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager. — David Crabb

He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright. — Samuel Butler

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience. — Richard Dean Anderson

This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty. — Philippa Gregory

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. — Fanny Brice

Retribution. In a way, by asking me to kill — Jodi Picoult