Minella Pool Quotes & Sayings

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children. — Hanna Rosin

The end result is that there can be no more truth or goodness and no need or even ability to make tough choices. Where the purpose of higher education once was to enable the student to find truth, the modern university teaches that there is no truth, only 'lifestyle. — Allan Bloom

All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men
and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't ... — Ayn Rand

This is the opposite of love, I realize, when I look over and see my empty couch, see right through my imaginary companions. The opposite of love isn't hate; it isn't even indifference. It's fucking disembowelment. Hara-kiri. Taking a huge shovel and digging out your own heart, and your intestines, and leaving behind nothing. Nothing of yourself to give, nothing, even, to take away. Nothing but a quiet pulse and some mildly entertaining soap operas.

If to love is to hand over self and heart, then this, my friend, this - to self-disembowel - is its opposite.

I wish I knew how to needlepoint so I could stitch it onto a fucking pillow. — Julie Buxbaum

I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me. — Nina Arianda

All this from one kiss. If we ever make love, I'm going to need a week to recover. — Sarah Addison Allen

Mothers were sacred. Mothers were not expected to be pretty. — Bernard Cornwell

The wise are greatly revered,
the righteous are exceedingly honored,
and the foolish are repeatedly disgraced. — Matshona Dhliwayo