P1297 Quotes & Sayings

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death. — Thomas Hobbes

When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick him up bodily and insert him gently through the open window. — J.D. Salinger

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. — J.K. Rowling

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. — Bruce Schneier

If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys' brains, I'd be all in favor of that. — Ted Chiang

The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images ... if that is happening, that's fine. — Lorna Simpson

But men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory. — Bernard Cornwell

That night, there were meteor showers. It seemed to me that even the sky was weeping. Two — Jodi Picoult

Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started to sob about the dire repercussions of that war. As if wars ever bring pleasant repercussions. And on top of that, Azerbaijan adopted conceited stance and started to make demands as if anywhere in the world defeated aggressors are ever allowed to make demands. — Serzh Sargsyan

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me. — Shel Silverstein

We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same. — Yasmin Mogahed

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time. — Walt Whitman

I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach- as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle. That means feminism doesn't belong to anyone in particular — Angela Y. Davis