Phone On Dnd Quotes & Sayings

To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is "mitigated speech," which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. We mitigate when we're being polite, or when we're ashamed or embarrassed, or when we're being deferential to authority. If you want your boss to do you a favor, you don't say, "I'll need this by — Malcolm Gladwell

These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color leaves and fruits and proud naked Indians in a history without shame. Their great city of Tenochtitlan is still here beneath our shoes and history was always just like today full of markets and wanting. — Barbara Kingsolver

You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced! — Jason Gedrick

We were like two sides of Velcro that fused together to create an unbreakable bond. I was the rough side and she was the soft — Cambria Hebert

I can't walk in high heels, never mind dance in them. — Kesha

Maybe that's why I felt sad and empty - because I'd missed him all my life. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. — Isaiah Berlin

Time hurries by, we're here and gone. — Howard Dietz

He was coming to understand why the other sentinels had nicknamed her Tricks. It wasn't just because they had taught her all the dirty fighting tricks they knew. — Thea Harrison

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. — Jacob Bronowski