Perparation Quotes & Sayings

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents. — Ernst Haeckel

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that's not really what happened - and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were. He walked into school every day like the fat lonely nerdy kid he was, and all he could think about was the day of his manumission, when he would at last be set free from its unending horror. Hey, Oscar, are there faggots on Mars? - Hey, Kazoo, catch this. The first time he heard the term moronic inferno he know exactly where it was located and who were its inhabitants. — Junot Diaz

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide. — Russell Lynes

Equities are boring; bonds are disgusting. — Jeremy Grantham

Never speak of defeat before battle. — George R R Martin

To LGBT men and women worldwide, let me say this: wherever you live and whatever the circumstances of your life, whether you are connected to a network of support or feel isolated and vulnerable, please know that you are not alone. — Hillary Clinton

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing
her own version of resisting. — Lauren Oliver

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care. — Norman Cousins

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage. — Audre Lorde

It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven't made are the real source of regrets in your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You create what you speak. So, speak a better world.
Speak a happier and more loving life. Speak your
despair and let it lead you back to your truth. — Rachel C. Weingarten

The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation ... to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak ... I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug. — Albert Hofmann

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide. — Sara Paretsky

Nate wrapped his arms around her, holding her close. "Let's get you back and I'll build you a fire."
She liked the way he said it. He'd build HER a fire. — Cindi Madsen

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence? — Malcolm Forbes