Oppressas Quotes & Sayings

No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like. — Jami Attenberg

I want to say so much more than I have time for. — Murray Walker

And the truth shall set you free," the Pillar muses. "Free enough to kill one another." "Stop — Cameron Jace

William pondered over his argument with Annie. How did a simple statement turn into a full-scale fight? He didn't understand why it was wrong of him to assume Annie would run a simple errand for him. Sara had done all of it without complaint. All he'd asked Annie to do was pick up a suit from the dry cleaners. — Deanna Lynn Sletten

A brick could be used to make love better. Faster isn't always better. Don't you want to make love better? — Jarod Kintz

I went to sleep feeling like a terrorist. But I wasn't going to kill people, I was going to bring them back to life. That's a whole different kind of terror. It's the terror of god. — Victor Lodato

It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out ... — N. T. Wright

What made drugs perpetually so sexy was the opportunity to be other. Years after he'd figured out that pot only made him paranoid and sleepless, he still got hard-ons at the thought of smoking it. Still lusted for that jailbreak. — Jonathan Franzen

One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me. — Kate Grenville

Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome. — Thomas S. Monson

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated. — Alexander Alekhine

A choice is an act of god, malevolent or loving is your will, free until conflicting with others who share this power, a true collision of good and evil. — K.R. Royal

My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work. — Dan Millman

It takes courage to be a Christian. It takes great courage to go out and meet Christ when He is on the road to Calvary. But just as a coward has no right to call himself a man, so a slacker in any slightest degree has no right to call himself a Christian. We cannot say that we are "of Christ", far less that we are "in Christ", if we flinch the fullness of crucifixion! — M. Raymond