Oiroir Quotes & Sayings

Christ, it's official. I have a hard-on for a straight guy. That's just terrific. — Ella Frank

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work. — Alan Chadwick

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter. — Eiji Yoshikawa

The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants. — Martin Jacques

The only reason to write is from love. — Stephen Sondheim

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb. — Angela Davis

When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be very much celebrated, in a way, and honored.' — Common

The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results.
Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender inequality as much as women do. — Sheryl Sandberg

He was aware of his trauma, but he was using it to distance himself from life. He had a story about himself but no access to who he might have been before his trauma derailed him. I was trying to use his feelings of deprivation as a means of bringing him back in touch with a more fundamental truth about himself, to guide him back toward - or at least help him to visualize - the intrinsic relational foundation of his being. By not fighting with his internal wounds, by not insisting on making them go away, by not recruiting everyone in his intimate life to save him from his feelings of abandonment, by simply resting with them the way we do in meditation, he could learn, as the Buddha did, that he already was the love he thought he lacked. — Mark Epstein

But I wondered why they had waited for Eve's illness to make themselves available for companionship. — Garth Stein