Poignarder Quotes & Sayings

The world can be a great big scary place,
and finding a soul mate is no simple task.
But if you're lucky enough to do just that,
sometimes that's all that you need: one person
to belong to - who also belongs to you. — Rachel C. Weingarten

Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us. — Sue Monk Kidd

I just like when stuff feels good. 'Happy' feels good. — Pharrell Williams

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue. — Bell Hooks

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space. — Rashid Johnson

I'm not a nutcase. I know that. — Minnie Driver

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things. — Diana Wynne Jones

(the pharmakon is neither remedy now poison, neither good nor evil, neither the inside nor the outside, neither speech nor writing; the supplement is neither a plus nor a minus, neither an outside nor the complement of an inside, neither accident nor essence, etc.; the hymen is neither confusion nor distinction, neither identity nor difference, neither consummation nor virginity, neither the veil nor unveiling, neither the inside nor the outside, etc.; the gram is neither a signifier nor a signified, neither a sign nor a thing, neither a presence nor an absence, neither a position nor a negation, etc.; spacing is neither space nor time; the incision is neither the incised integrity of a beginning, or of a simple cutting into, nor simple secondarity. Neither/nor, that is, simultaneously either or; the mark is also the marginal limit, the march, etc.) — Jacques Derrida

The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product
Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price
Everything. — Thomas Ligotti

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal. — C.S. Lewis

Fanny believed their emotional landscapes were similar: Both were tenderhearted, headstrong, tough and vulnerable all at once. — Nancy Horan