Pigpens Quotes & Sayings

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy. — Alexander Herzen

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Lie to yourself until it's true. — Jodi Picoult

People just don't couple wealth with neglect, idiocy with affluence. — Lisa O'Donnell

On a huge hill,
Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will
Reach her, about must, and about must goe;
And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so;
Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight,
Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night. — John Donne

Instances of delightfulness are always intrinsically beautiful, so to speak, and yet under the right circumstances they may be swinish as well, for what is humanly beautiful might, as it were, be too beautiful for human beings, for which reason people are glad to place beauty in proximity to pigpens, as one is no doubt justified in saying. — Robert Walser

It's impossible to imagine, isn't it? Most men probably go through the same motions, more or less, but what's in their minds, what agitates their blood? What could be more mortifyingly personal, what veers closer to the depths, than whatever it is that makes us come? If we knew, if we could see what's in the cartoon balloons over other guy's heads as they jerk off, would we be moved, or repelled? — Michael Cunningham

The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex. — Marilyn French