Pilkasis Quotes & Sayings

Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse. — Kate Chopin

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. — Erich Fromm

Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the holidays to keep the traditions and the culture going, but I truly don't have a great feeling about any particular organized religion, and I don't think it's right to impose one on my kids. — Rhea Perlman

Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities. — Jane Goodall

At the window of my room, I catch my reflection in the glass. Shaggy black hair. Sneer.I look like a hungry ghost, glowering in at a world I am no longer fit to be a part of. — Holly Black

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing. — Paul McCartney

What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force. — Benjamin Peirce

There's joy all around, if you only look for it. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit - never to stand up for themselves. — Charles E. Cobb Jr.

Love her he doesn't but the thought he puts
into that young woman
would launch a national product
complete with TV spots & skywriting
outlets in Bonn & Tokyo
I mean it — John Berryman

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever. — Lysander Spooner

As soon as a still-to-be-finished computer task becomes a life-or-death situation the power fails. — Andre Hoffmann

I have a mouth for kisses / No one to give or to take / I have a heart in my bosom / Beating for nobody's sake. — Lana Citron