Pestiferous Bringing Quotes & Sayings

The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her. — Steven Pressfield

There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer. — Denis Hayes

That way you look friendly and also terrifying to anyone passing by, which is nice because then people won't bother you while you're reading. In fact, you can rip out the previous page and glue photocopies of it on the covers of all of your other books because it's like a subtle "Do Not Disturb" sign. — Jenny Lawson

Never has there been a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,' — Steve McHugh

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now ... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig? — Steve Harvey

Damn, it feels great to hurt idiots. — Richard Kadrey

Ibn Taymiyyah was a worrying figure to the establishment. His return to the fundamentals of the Quran and sunnah and his denial of much of the rich spirituality and philosophy of Islam may have been reactionary, but it was also revolutionary. He outraged the conservative ulama, who clung to the textbook answers, and criticized the Mamluk government of Syria for practices which contravened Islamic law as he understood it. — Karen Armstrong