Nawlins Quotes & Sayings

The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb. — Warren Farrell

Infrastructure investment can boost economic growth and employment, and, in fact, it is fiscally neutral. — Lou Jiwei

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale. — Claes Oldenburg

Sometimes the only way to answer the world is to laugh at its line of enquiry. — Ian Avery

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. — Billy Graham

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there — Mother Teresa

But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long. — Albert Camus

They dragged the air mattress up to the widow's walk and eventually figured out how it was supposed to inflate, but Lucas had to read the instructions in Spanish because the English ones were nearly incomprehensible. Hilariously so.
"Insert mouth to the purpose inflation," Helen whispered.
...
"Expel lung into inflator tube," Lucas whispered back. "That sounds like it would hurt. — Josephine Angelini

I just wasn't able to say it before now.'
He blinked. 'You needed to knee a man in the groin before you could tell me you loved me?'
'No!' Then she thought about his words. 'Well, yes, in a way. I've always been so fearful that you would run my life. But I've learned that having you with me doesn't mean that I can't take care of myself as well.'
'You certainly made short work of Eversleigh.'
Her chin lifted a notch and she allowed herself a satisfied smile. 'Yes, I did, didn't I? And do you know, but I think I couldn't have done it without you.'
'Victoria, you did this all on your own. I wasn't even present.'
'Yes, you were.' She picked up his hand and placed it over her heart. — Julia Quinn

The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble. — Ellie Goulding

The truth is people who worship health cannot remain healthy on the point. — G.K. Chesterton

My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry. — Danzy Senna

And then his world turned into a pelting rain of flaming snot. — Lois McMaster Bujold