Precariato Quotes & Sayings

It was the butt that had done it nineteen years ago, was still doing it now. He'd seen it coming around Strawberry Alley and had followed it four whole blocks. It was mesmerizing, the way it moved, independent of the rest of her body, as though operating under the influencer of another brain entirely, one cheek knocking into the other cheek so that that cheek had to swing out before knocking back — Yaa Gyasi

We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut. — Wole Soyinka

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that. — Vladimir Putin

That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say. — Joe Dunthorne

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war. — Patrick Ness

We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love. — John Ortberg

alone feels permanent, and lost can be found — Amy Harmon

Meetings are the Hail Marys of alcoholics. You can do or almost do anything, feel anything, commit any number of non-sober atrocities, as long as you follow with an AA chaser.
"After I cut off his penis, I sauteed it in rosemary butter and ate it."
"But did you go to a meeting afterward?"
"Yes"
"I wouldn't worry about it then. — Augusten Burroughs

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken. — Mary Balogh

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance. — Meles Zenawi