Pulsante Shift Quotes & Sayings

I'd thought Clarice's smile was both too dim and friendly and too wide and white, so that she looked to me like the love child of a cannibal and a Labrador retriever. — Joshilyn Jackson

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. — Steven Moffat

Our willingness to embrace the realities of our neighbor's difficulty is what empowers our witness and makes our testimony of Christ effective and hearable. — Christopher W. Brooks

My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it. — Hannah More

One of the central issues in the world population crisis is poverty. — Carl Sagan

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? — Helen Hunt Jackson

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's. — David Shields

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? — Antonin Scalia

The ending shouldn't determine the meaning of anything, a story or a life. Logically, I don't think it can--didn't Heidegger say something to that effect? That the meaning of all our moments cannot be contingent upon an end-point over which we have no control? That if we are happy right now, that means something, even if we die tomorrow? Narrative integrity is overrated. I don't need to know that the story of my life has a happy ending to enjoy it. A good thing, too, because I hear all the characters die in the end. — Alexa Stevenson

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home. — Sergio Aragones

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage. — Madonna Ciccone

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. — Bob Marley

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch