Parissa Hot Quotes & Sayings

I can show you fear in a handful of dust — T. S. Eliot

If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world. — Oliver Sacks

Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us — Naomi Wolf

Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there. — Malik Yoba

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person. — Terrell Owens

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice. — Edith Hamilton

People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it. — Tullian Tchividjian

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is, that all the argument is on one side. There are no objections, and no answers to objections. But on every subject on which difference of opinion is possible, the truth depends on a balance to be struck between two sets of confliting reasons. Even in natural philosophy, there is always some other explanation possible of the same facts; some geocentric theory instead of heliocentric, some phlogiston instead of oxygen; and it has to be shown why that other theory cannot be the true on: and until this is shown, and until we know how it is shown, we do not understand the grounds of our opinion. But when we turn to subjects infinitely more complicated, to morals, religion, politics, social relations, and the business of life, three-fourths of the arguments for every disputed opinion consist in dispelling the appearances which favour some opinion different from it. — John Stuart Mill

We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand. — Brian Froud

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist. — Norman Finkelstein

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, whereby, for example, the omnipotent god became the omnipotent lawgiver - but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for a sociological consideration of these concepts. The exception in jurisprudence is analogous to the miracle in theology. Only by being aware of this analogy can we appreciate the manner in which the philosophical ideas of the state developed in the last centuries. — Carl Schmitt

For seven of the eight years he was president, Reagan would not say the AIDS word. — John Irving

Examine this statement: 'A woman cannot be a poet.' Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood? — Jeanette Winterson

She owned the road
as an elephant owns the veldt
and like a big blue elephant
moved with massive grace
and dignity. — David Drake