Pittner Well Quotes & Sayings

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. — Sarah Waters

We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense. — John Ruskin

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. — Walter Lippmann

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason ... — Mary Wollstonecraft

I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair ... and its all good. — Morena Baccarin

I am so wrapped up in the hurt I have received that I do not notice the hurt I inflict. — John Ortberg

He looked her over, making her every nerve ending tingle with awareness, though his gaze was more inquisitive than sexual, as if making sure she was okay, though she had no idea why she wouldn't be.
Then he smiled, and oh, how her misbehaving nipples loved that predatory smile. If his intense, concerned once-over had done things to her, his smile just about undid her from the inside out.
-Amy — Jill Shalvis

When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against. — S.T. Joshi

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now — Alison McGhee

Calvin said that the only haven of safety is "to have no other will, no other wisdom, than to follow the Lord wherever He leads. Let this, then, be the first step, to abandon ourselves, and devote the whole energy of our minds to the service of God." To do this, we will have to face our greatest fear. — John Ortberg

Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment of its population in its security forces and protection, then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn't have prevented it altogether. — Adam Schiff