Patriarchists Quotes & Sayings

She was a clock, I could tell by the ticking in her wrist. (I'd secretly slipped my thumb down, to feel her pulse as we danced. It was perfectly steady and wreaking havoc with mine.) I could keep time by you, I thought. — Elizabeth McCracken

The Shubert grandparents. No comfort there. He in uniform, she in a ball gown, displaying absurd self-satisfaction. They had got what they wanted, Sophia supposed, and had only contempt for those not so conniving or so lucky. — Alice Munro

If I need to help my team and play a different position for that game because somebody is hurt or they want to give a day off to somebody, I'll do it. — Albert Pujols

All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women ... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey. — Marilyn French

People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina. — Blake Mycoskie

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. — Mahatma Gandhi

A glass of wine in one's hand is rather like a jewel, isn't it, a large, liquid one? — Marie Rutkoski

So start saying F**k It to pain. When you respond to pain, you are only acting out a conditioned response. And all conditioned responses are reversible. When you encounter any pain, counter your immediate response by just saying F**k It. — John C. Parkin

When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness. — Joseph Brodsky

I never can imagine that a woman can do anything wrong, if they do then man made her to do it. — Debasish Mridha

My wife says books aren't real."
"Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV and parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes truth and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimension, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours. — Ray Bradbury

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. — Ray Stannard Baker

The kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio ... — Tom McNeal

I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted. — Michael Skolnik

I'm never embarrassed to say, "I don't know." — Ruth Westheimer