Ownables Quotes & Sayings

They glimpsed enough of each other to know they liked one another, but for us it is taboo to express such things. Instead he sent her poems she could not read. 'I admired his mind,' she says. 'And me, her beauty,' he laughs. — Malala Yousafzai

When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children. — Olympia Snowe

This was the first time I'd met a Tellarite, and to this day I'm still impressed by the ease with which they can slide into argument. — David A. Goodman

It said a lot of things [...] because I was very upset about how Americans couldn't imagine what it was like to be something else, to be something else and proud of it. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The already privileged receive privileged educations. The disadvantaged receive inferior educations, and then we blame them for their failure. — Janet Perry

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master. — Malcolm X

There's blood beneath every layer of skin. — Alexander McQueen

Hadst thou but tasted once the thousandth part
Of joys, which bless the loved and loving heart,
Your words repentant and your sighs would prove,
Lost is the time which is not past in love. — Torquato Tasso