Reconsolidate Private Quotes & Sayings

Beware of creating tedium! — Anthony Trollope

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth. — Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful. — Desmond Tutu

Dreams, my mother always told me, represend part of our unconsciousness
the place where we store the true parts of our soul, away from the rest of the world. From Breena quoting her mother in Bitter Frost — Kailin Gow

Tennis is the loneliest sport — Andre Agassi

Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation. — Pope Benedict XVI

I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic physics is there to support this view. But where is the evidence that the putative change would be large or damaging? — Chris De Freitas

Does this mean that religious consumption will increase online? That could be. We do not know yet, but to expect religion to disappear because of online technology is like expecting people to stop listening to music because Napster, Spotify and Wimp are offering us all the music we want online — Torkel Brekke

I'm already in hell; what else you got? — Evelyn Smith

My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing it is a lovely bonus. — Chasta Schneider

Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault

I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that. — Quentin Crisp

He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it. — David Estes

Another irritant is accidental rhyme, as in the sentence "When the rig blew, everything went flying sky-high
me too." Notice here that the rhyme is offensive because both rhyme words, "blew" and "too" are stressed positions; that is, the voice comes down hard on them. The rhyme is not offensive, to most ears, if the writer can get one of the rhymes out of stressed position: "The rig blew sky-high, and everything went flying, me too. — John Gardner

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate. — Euripides