Posed Def Quotes & Sayings

Humans are social animals. They cluster like bees. — Rick Yancey

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon. — Jolene Blalock

Joe knew that for some, really for most, the derivations of belladonna that blurred their vision and caused their hearts to race would, as well, hasten their forgetting of detail. They would not recall, not readily, any sense of pain or shame or doubt or threat of danger.
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There were always children to be used. Members were obliged to offer their children, although not necessarily every child in a family was used. Some were found to be not suited for the rigor. Some were left alone so that if the involved children in a family were to attempt to tell, siblings could not corroborate their experience. — Judith Spencer

Very few people understand that swords aren't dangerous, Tavi, nor hands nor arms, nor furies. Minds are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both. — Jim Butcher

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961. — Gore Vidal

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, our lives are a mirror, reflection a must ... — Lynda Meyers

In Living in Spanglish I posit the coming of existence of this forwars-looking race that obliterates all races, stripping away Vasaconelos's petty resentment of Anglo culture and patronizing Euro-centrist, and acknowledge a cultural-economic inevitability that is hemispheric in nature.
Note: Jose Vasaconelos wrote 1925 essay "La Raza cosmica" [The Cosmic Race] asserting, "Por mi raza hablara mi espiritu [The Spirit will speak through my race. — Ed Morales

Vadderung grinned. I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future. — Jim Butcher

No legal ceremony
no election of the woman
no penalty for the perfidy of the man
no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce
putting away! — Victoria Woodhull

Let it be clear to all: Greatness belongs to those who have mastered the ability to focus relentlessly on their ambitions and act decisively toward them. — Brendon Burchard

Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy. — J. Harold Smith

Mister Hawe, you come along, not satisfied with ropin — Zane Grey

Patriarchal life, you're out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way! — Planningtorock

The sedan went too and I stood alone in the woods and watched my ear burn. — Robert B. Parker