Realville Quotes & Sayings

That was the cold equation. How many lives is one person, even a totally innocent person, going to be worth? — Mira Grant

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied. — Radovan Kavicky

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice. — Eileen Chang

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Coming face-to-face with an individual who has crossed class barriers of gender or attractiveness can help us recognize the extent to which our own biases, assumptions, and stereotypes create those class systems in the first place. But rather than question our own value judgments or notice the ways that we treat people differently based on their size, beauty, or gender, most of us reflexively react to these situations in a way that reinforces class boundaries: We focus on the presumed "artificiality" of the transformation the subject has undergone. Playing up the "artificial" aspects of the transformation process gives one the impression that the class barrier itself is "natural," one that could not have been crossed if it were not for modern medical technology. — Julia Serano

Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory. — Martin Luther

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul. — Josh Billings

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up. — Rush Limbaugh