Reggies Quotes & Sayings

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights. — John Ashcroft

She is bizarre, fantastic, nervous, like someone in a high fever. Her beauty drowned me. As I sat before her, I felt I would do anything she asked of me. Henry suddenly faded. She was color and brilliance and strangeness. By the end of the evening I had extricated myself from her power. She killed my admiration by her talk. Her talk. The enormous ego, false, weak, posturing. She — Anais Nin

Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face. — Karen Salmansohn

I'd been too intent on the room to hear her coming up the stairs. Leslie said that the capacity not to notice a traditional Dutch folk dancing band walk up behind you was not a survival characteristic in the complex, fast-paced world of the modern policing environment. I'd like to point out that I was trying to give directions to a slightly deaf tourist at the time, and anyway it was a Swedish dance troupe. — Ben Aaronovitch

I recall when this place was a good 'n honest community hall with a great sense of place and pride but now it's just a hall and fuck the community. — Jonathan Dunne

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway. — Roxane Gay

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. — James F. Byrnes

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee. — Charles Spurgeon

We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together. — Georgette Leblanc

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in. — Marvin Olasky