Quindici 15 Quotes & Sayings

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. — Betty Friedan

When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But by the time you're sixty, it's so commonplace. What's the point in ridiculing people anymore? Their existence itself is a sort of sick joke. — Harold Ramis

this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet claims to be following. — Italo Calvino

When moonlight touches you, it's time for a woman to sit back and think, really think, about her life. — Cathy Lamb

For one can live in friendship
With verses and with cards, with Plato and with wine,
And hide beneath the gentle cover of our playful pranks
A noble heart and mind. — Alexander Pushkin

What are you boys up to?" "Zane was showing off for me," Ty said with a smile. "I was trying to teach him how to rope." "I can't imagine he'll learn much, way he was staring at you." Ty looked away, but even the hot summer sun couldn't mask the blush creeping over the man. Harrison — Abigail Roux

Our brain is a circuit board with neurons and terminals ready to be wired. We are born free, then programmed to obey our parents, to tell the truth, pass exams, pursue and achieve, love and propagate, age and fade unfulfilled and uncertain what it has all been for. We swallow the operating system with our mother's milk and sleepwalk into the forest of consumer illusion craving shoes, houses, cars, magazines, experiences that endorse our preconceived dreams and opinions. We grow into our parents. We becomes clones, robots, matchstick men thinking and saying the same, feeling the same, behaving the same, appreciating in books and films and art shows those things we already recognize and understand. — Chloe Thurlow

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation. — Charlotte Bronte

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves. — Walter Bonatti

He probably couldn't turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.' (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Hope smiled when your nativity was cast,
Children of Summer! — William Wordsworth

When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia. — Thomas Jefferson

So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer. — E. Lockhart