Norms That Can Be Violated Quotes & Sayings

My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children. — Nicolas Cage

He could just barely make out her form in the path about ten yards ahead of him. Her hair was so fair it captured what little moonlight hung in the darkness and glowed like a halo. — Julia Quinn

To my daughter I will say, when men come, set yourself on fire. — Warsan Shire

We share the same water in our veins, air in our lungs, the same dust in our bones. We are two petals on the same flower of life, my friend. — Cristen Rodgers

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women. — Gloria Steinem

Something is mighty wrong with our priorities when professing Christian men joke about their wives, joke about their children, and joke about God, but fight to the death over their favorite sports team. — Doug Phillips

A camera is just like a woman, as long as you have one of them hanging around your neck ... life is just fine — Sunny-Drunk

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results. — Voltaire

Everything was fine with the Zen Lunatics, the nut wagon was too far away to hear us. But there was a wisdom in it all, as you'll see if you take a walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of on wheels. You'll see what I mean, when it begins to appear like everybody in the world is soon going to be thinking the same way and the Zen Lunatics have long joined dust, laughter on their dust lips. — Jack Kerouac

I thank thee, Lord, for forgiving me, but I prefer staying in the darkness: forgive me that too." - "No; that cannot be. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin of choosing to be evil, of refusing deliverance. It is impossible to forgive that. It would be to take part in it. — George MacDonald

How sad, however, if we're given
Our youth as something to betray,
And what if youth in turn is driven
To cheat on us, each hour, each day,
If our most precious aspirations,
Our freshest dreams, imaginations
In fast succession have decayed,
As leaves, in putrid autumn, fade.
It is too much to see before one
Nothing but dinners in a row,
Behind the seemly crowd to go,
Regarding life as mere decorum,
Having no common views to share,
Nor passions that one might declare. — Alexander Pushkin

It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely resemble her books. Or rather, that the books in which she found its likeness were so unexciting. — Val McDermid

he said it quietly but with such intensity that Valentina fell in love with him, though she had no name for the feeling and nothing to compare it to. — Audrey Niffenegger

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy. — Bernhard Von Bulow