Ptable Quotes & Sayings

I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere. — Camren Bicondova

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up. — Thandie Newton

It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? — Sydney J. Harris

Talent will not always find its way but commitment will. — Nancy Crow

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks. — George Orwell

I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls attractive, then people say that you got ahead because of your looks-especially if you're a woman. If you're whatever society says is not attractive, then they say you got ahead because you're compensating, you couldn't get a man or whatever. So everybody pays the same penalty for the fact that women are assessed for their outsides rather than for what's in our heads and our hearts. — Gloria Steinem

Longing performs all things — Mary Renault

Remind me that woman must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities; that she must be the pioneer in achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. — Kjell Magne Bondevik

Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water. — Fennel Hudson

Adoration will heal our Church and thus our nation and thus our world ... Adoration touches everyone and everything ... [because it touches the Creator, Who touches everything and everyone] ... When we adore, we plug into infinite dynamism and power. Adoration is more powerful for construction than nuclear bombs are for destruction — Peter Kreeft

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal"). — Friedrich Nietzsche