Postmodernity Sociology Quotes & Sayings

I'm that way, goofy as it sounds. Sometimes I don't want things to happen-I'm talking about good things, even wonderful things-because once they happen, I can't look forward to them anymore. But there's an upside, too. Once a wonderful thing is over, I'm not all that sad because then I can start thinking about it, reliving and reliving it in the virtual world in my head. — Jerry Spinelli

I would not have imagined that love himself would have such a fatal blow this. — Valentinno

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it. — Zygmunt Bauman

He burst from the water. He was facing her now. The muscles bunched on his arms as he slicked his wet, shoulder-length hair back from his face. The mist swirled amber over the surface of the water, adorning his gleaming skin as if he were the tributary god of this ruined garden. Her pity evaporated, burned away by the sudden realization that she had it all wrong. He was ... She swallowed. Good Lord. He was magnificent. — Elizabeth Hoyt

We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids ... — George Sand

Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it. — Rachel Maddow

I always joke that a makeup-free day is good for the pores. — John King

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance. — Tamora Pierce

I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?' — Valentino Garavani

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American. — Bill Bryson

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter. — Helen Van Slyke

And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask for a friend? — Stephenie Meyer