Ocuparea Quotes & Sayings

If you have a shapely bottom, accentuate it with a pair of well-fitted jeans to draw attention from problem areas, e.g. the things you do and say. — Man Who Has It All

It is more important to be free than to be happy. — Tom Robbins

I bought a warmer coat with many ingenious pockets. You put your hands in all of them. — Jenny Offill

The stone basin was crusted with ice now. The courtyard security light illuminated its depths, and as he leaned over it he could make out the fiery glints of goldfish beneath the surface. There, beneath the cover of the ice, their flickering lives went on. He wanted to know how they did it, how they withstood the slowing of their hearts, the chilling of their blood, through the long darkness of winter. — Julie Orringer

There are problems with the single already. I don't want to put out the first single, Hit the Freeway. — Toni Braxton

No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is. — Eduardo Galeano

Closer ... he's closer. He's going to kiss me. I'm caught between wanting to scream hallelujah and having a heart attack. — Nyrae Dawn

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal ( ... ). There is a tendency ( ... ) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious-because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe-some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others-some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. — Harper Lee

The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone. — Victor Hugo

People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it. — Jay Asher

I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome. — Hannibal

Those with power are frequently least aware of
or least willing to acknowledge
its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence. — Lisa Delpit

When a straight man puts on a dress and gets his sexual kicks, he is a transvestite. When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body and has a little operation, he is a Transsexual. When a gay man has WAY too much fashion sense for one gender he is a drag queen. And when a tired little Latin boy puts on a dress, he is simply a boy in a dress! — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are. — Stephen Chbosky