Namenstag Quotes & Sayings

I think marriage is ghastly. — Rupert Everett

She wouldn't have sex with me in public bathrooms. Little things like this haunted me. I was only twenty-five. — Michelle Tea

The absence of adult males upsets the natural order in our species and in others. For example, game wardens in South Africa recently had to kill several teenage male elephants that had uncharacteristically become violent. These young elephants behaved like a contemporary street gang - and perhaps for the same reason: There were no adult males in their lives. To solve the problem, park officials imported adult male elephants from outside the area. Almost immediately, the remaining juveniles stopped misbehaving. Testosterone ungoverned by experience is dangerous, and older males temper the craving for dominance - merely by being dominant themselves. — Gavin De Becker

Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing? — Dana Burnet

At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant! — Gareth Roberts

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living. — John Eldredge

How do you know you're in love?" I asked her. "Because if it's determined by how willing you are to give up everything for the other person, I think it's a flawed system. — Diana Peterfreund

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses. — Nicole Kidman

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. — Isaac D'Israeli

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them. — Colonel Sanders

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. — Voltaire

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know. — Mohamed El-Erian

Five hundred souls.
I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms. — Markus Zusak

It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves. — Donna J. Haraway

Nothing is ever truly gone ...
Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow.
-Hem at Zelika's grave — Alison Croggon