Roaring Forties Quotes & Sayings

A mother's love - "
"Fuck love," Amber snarls, "she wants power. — Charles Stross

We'll keep her covered, Shy," Tack told him. "You know that. Snap is on her, with Roscoe and Speck at his back and hers. — Kristen Ashley

She was particularly curious about the Viginians, wondering if, as slaveholders, they had the necessary commitment to the cause of freedom. "I have," she wrote, "sometimes been ready to think that the passions for liberty cannot be equally strong in the breasts of those who have been accustomed to deprive their fellow creature of theirs." What she felt about those in Massachusetts who owned slaves, including her own father, she did not say, but she need not have
John knew her mind on the subject. Writing to him during the First Congress, she had been unmistakably clear: "I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in the province. It always seemed a most iniquitous scheme to me
[to] fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have. — David McCullough

One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there. — Rob Portman

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move. — Joe Cocker

What we are not at all interested in may be what we are. — Nanamoli Thera

Nothing does harm if one's mind is at peace. — Leo Tolstoy

She was a woman and any exchange of words with a woman was fraught with her torturer's array of deadly implements, each one hovering at the very edge of a man's comprehension. — Steven Erikson

I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at the back of your mind, or digging at the potential of your character and you have to sit on your hands, that's frustrating. — Matthew Davis

You're like the cute version of the village idiot. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. — Henry David Thoreau

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

All you have to do is speak up.
Tell him straight up: "I need you here to protect and provide for us, to give us security in our lives, to help raise these children, to set an example for this boy, who needs to see what real men do, and for this girl, who needs to know what a real man is so she can find one of her own someday. I need you to be the head of this family."
Lay it out like this, and your requirements will trump his mother's every time. — Steve Harvey

Now, it so happens that our culture - or lack of it, for our culture is in a state of flux and crisis - places a high value on materialism, and, by extension, greed. Our culture's emphasis on greed is such that people have become immune to satisfaction. Having acquired one thing, they are immediately ready to desire the next thing that might suggest itself. Today, the object of desire is no longer satisfaction, but desire itself. — Neel Burton