Pessimistic Family Quotes & Sayings

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed — Emanuel Lasker

Brooks understood more than ever that she was the star of his life. — Lauren Kate

Working on any long-term project like a book is a test. Testing your patience is part of the game. Take it in your stride. Don't be so easily defeated. — N.C Harley

I'm the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and SamaUSA - that are working to alleviate poverty by connecting the global community to opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and here in the U.S. — Leila Janah

the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes. — Rolf Potts

Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people. — Trent Reznor

What is that immaterial part of man known as the soul? Theologians in general agree as to the soul's principal powers. They are the mind, the affections, and the will. Someone has pointed out that with the mind the soul knows, with the affections the soul feels, and with the will the soul chooses. — Jim Downing

I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage point. Needless to say, a throne is not the best place from which to view anything except the backs of prostrate men. — Gore Vidal

There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her. — E. Lockhart

I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. — Kathleen Hanna

The herd will be gathered together and tamed again, however, and this time for good. And then we shall give them tranquil, humble happiness, suitable for such weak creatures. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction. — George Lois

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable. — Catharine A. MacKinnon

Her hand drifted over his left nipple, and one of her fingers moved, sending lightning straight down to his groin. She was killing him, but he'd be damned if he moved one tiny inch. And if he was really, really lucky, she'd do it again. — Kathy Lyons