Purkis Fish Quotes & Sayings

Tess is not simply presented as a passive victim, however. Throughout the novel she is shown as experiencing tension between the intractable materiality of the social and economic world in which she has to live, and her extraordinarily vulnerable, sensitive self. Hardy is particularly interested in the nature of her consciousness, and in the intense subjectivity of her experience. — Geoffrey Harvey

I'm here to chew gum and kick some ass, and I'm all out of gum. — Stephen Hawking

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. — Fran Lebowitz

When I saw myself thus wholly cut off from human succour, incapable of attempting anything for my deliverance, I thought of heavenly succour. Memories of my childhood, of my mother ... came back to me. I began to pray, little as I deserved that God should know me when I had forgotten Him so long; and I prayed fervently. — Jules Verne

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it. — Ben Jonson

Tell me about revenge." "Dish best served cold," said Nehemiah Trot. "Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment. Instead, wait until the hour is propitious. — Neil Gaiman

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them. — Madeleine M. Kunin