Reproche Quotes & Sayings

Know to be a safe port in a storm? Flora suddenly remembered her dream, how warm William Spiver's hand had felt in her own. She blushed. Whom did she trust? Good grief, she trusted William Spiver. — Kate DiCamillo

Denying women the right to end a pregnancy is the flip side of punishing women for conduct during pregnancy, and even if not punishing, monitoring. In the spring of 2014 a law was proposed in the Kansas state legislature that would require doctors to report every miscarriage, no matter how early in pregnancy. — Katha Pollitt

Some women were created to make other women feel like shit about themselves. — J. Courtney Sullivan

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been. — Alex Blumberg

Hesitation is a cruel taskmaster; it breeds weakness the same way filth breeds germs. — Ray Dacolias

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated — Frederick Sommer

But that's the thing about dead people: they can't warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger. — LynDee Walker

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular. — Wanda Jackson

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I want a years-worth of seconds and minutes with you. I want a decade's worth of hours, so many that I can't add them up. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did. — Martha MacIsaac

I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros. — Daniel Dennett

This is one of the pitfalls of being nice: You end up overexerting yourself. That's why one of the most important things to learn after you master good behavior is how to say no gracefully. It's ultimately better for everyone, because you don't burn out and wind up in a mental institution, making you no good to anyone at all. — Tim Gunn

I lack nothing. I only needed myself. — Franz Kafka

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you. — Bernie Siegel