Perceptibly In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much? — Tana French

My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut. — Georgia May Jagger

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future. — Archibald Marwizi

When spoliation becomes a means of subsistence for a body of men united by social ties, in course of time they make a law that sanctions it, a morality that glorifies it. It is enough to name some of the best defined forms of spoliation to indicate the position it occupies in human affairs. First comes war. Among savages the conqueror kills the conquered to obtain an uncontested, if not incontestable, right to game. Next slavery. When man learns that he can make the earth fruitful by labor, he makes this division with his brother: "You work and I eat." Then comes superstition. "According as you give or refuse me that which is yours, I will open to you the gates of heaven or of hell." Finally, monopoly appears. Its distinguishing characteristic is to allow the existence of the grand social law - service for service - while it brings the element of force into the discussion, and thus alters the just proportion between service received and service rendered. — Frederic Bastiat

Arthur is smart and he has words, but so do I. I stood there arguing with him. Then, in the middle of a sentence, he said sharply, "I'll decide when the vacation is over."

I stared at him. I don't know what he saw in my face, but his own softened perceptibly. Very quietly he said, "It doesn't mean what it meant when you were young. — Vivian Gornick

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us. — Colson Whitehead

If Jones magically converted 50 outs a year into walks, presto: now he's Ken Griffey, Jr. — Baseball Prospectus

I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age. — Twiggy

The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious,
while humans are forgetful. — Michael Chorost

She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if ... the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth. — Ayn Rand

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality. — Don Feder