Plights Def Quotes & Sayings

I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most about Marlowe, just so I can write you a poem worthy of Shakespeare. I've made books my lovers, hours my enemies and you the only story. — Nikita Gill

Labor is sacrificed on the inflation rates altar of oblation. — Richard Gwynn

Full of questions and pleas, her eyes seemed to be asking for rescue. — Kyung-Sook Shin

People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order, no nonsense. So that's where their psyche is at. Probably it's something that they've got to go through. Not that there isn't a need for order in the world, but the mystical level seems to be the mature level of religion, and there the question is not order but union - divine union. And so, without some integration of the feminine, usually you never get to the mystical level. — Richard Rohr

It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that the crazy and the kind were one and the same. — Don DeLillo

His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all it needed-and walk out into the open air. It was torture and at last he became numb and hopeless. — W. Somerset Maugham

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men. — Martin Luther King Jr.

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself. — Marshall McLuhan