Plimsoll Quotes & Sayings

Extremist individuals live inside every single group on the planet. Devout followers from Christian to Muslim who kill in the name of God, down to people who perpetuate a cycle of abuse from parent to child. And do you know at what point they're labeled as terrorists?"
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"When the news reports it. The news can take a starving refugee and make them into an invading migrant. One of my Black ancestors was photographed carrying diapers over his head after a flood. They called him a 'looter.' A white man was photographed doing the same thing. They called him a 'survivor. — Mur Lafferty

When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put. — Dat Phan

I could look in this man's eyes all day. Could get lost in them, move for them, lie, steal, die for them. — Alessandra Torre

Whether one is dealing with the state, the Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands, the heavy price of institutionalised protection is always a measure of dependence and agreement to abide by the protector's rules — Wendy Brown

Mona says that talking heals, but at times like this, I think that just being next to someone who likes you is all anybody ever needs. — Francisco X Stork

Whoever says The Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll. — Morrissey

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. — Josh Billings

You were the centre of my universe and everything else spun around you. — Rainbow Rowell

The translation of joy into willingness to work seems to depend to a large degree on how much meaning we can attribute to our own labor. — Dan Ariely

The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety. — James Richardson

Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna. — Radhanath Swami

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom. — Vivian Gornick

The pragmatic part of my mind had come undone, its order dismantled by droves of thoughts that clamored to be noticed, to be touched, to be seen. I could not touch them all at once. I could not address the future when I had barely begun to address the crowded past. The mind is elastic but not infinite, it can only pull so far at once before it starts to break apart, and Time, it turned out, was not a river at all but an ocean, spreading in all directions, disorderly and vast, swirling with spiraled currents. You never knew where you might drift, or what would become of you along the way. — Carolina De Robertis

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it. — Tori Amos