Overstocked Books Quotes & Sayings

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. — Plato

You're a little whore, kitten, but you're my little whore. Do you understand? I own this mouth. I can fuck it with my hand until you drool. I own this ass, and I'll put a hook in it when I like. Your cunt is mine to fuck with anything I want. — C.D. Reiss

Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up. — Sharyn McCrumb

Don't follow after the object of hatred, look at the angry mind. Anger liberated by itself as it arises is mirrorlike wisdom.

Don't chase after the object of pride, look at the grasping mind. Self-importance liberated as it arises is the wisdom of equanimity.

Don't hanker after the object of desire, look at the craving mind. — Dilgo Khyentse

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions. — George Orwell

Man.
Motorcyle.
Mountains. — Tracy March

It isn't just dictators, power-mad politicians, kings of high finance, and drug-addled rock stars who are vulnerable to abuses of power; the power paradox can undermine the social life of any of us at any moment. Whether we are at work, out with friends, in encounters with strangers, or with our children, the very skills that enable us to gain respect and esteem are corrupted when we are feeling powerful. — Dacher Keltner

You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'
How?'
Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets. — Jodi Picoult

there is no question that social pressures nudge people to accept some pretty odd conclusions - and those conclusions might well affect their behavior. — Richard H. Thaler

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living. — Ayn Rand

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas. — Agatha Christie