Safe And Happy Holiday Quotes & Sayings

If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth. — Seth

The Black homosexual is hard pressed to gain audience among his heterosexual brothers; even if he is more talented, he is inhibited by his silence or his admissions. This is what the race has depended on in being able to erase homosexuality from our recorded history. The "chosen" history. But the sacred constructions of silence are futile exercises in denial. We will not go away with our issues of sexuality. We are coming home. It is not enough to tell us that one was a brilliant poet, scientist, educator, or rebel. Whom did he love? It makes a difference. I can't become a whole man simply on what is fed to me: watered-down versions of Black life in America. I need the ass-splitting truth to be told, so I will have something pure to emulate, a reason to remain loyal. — Essex Hemphill

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

[ ... ] What's wrong with her?"
"Chronic competence, I should guess. She's been so successful in life that she has unrealistic expectations of others. — Brandon Sanderson

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to. — Rachel Simon

Do I get a kiss before my massage?"
"Since you asked so nice." His lips were smiling when they touched hers, and she'd never guessed until this moment what it was to kiss a man you could laugh with. They smiled through the entire kiss, as he sipped at her, before slicking his tongue over her lips. She danced her own tongue playfully over his, flirting but never delivering. He nipped at her in sensual punishment before taking her mouth with a dominance that was as natural to him as breathing. And through it all, he kept her pinned to the door, his heavier body a delicious source of pressure. — Nalini Singh

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb. — Italo Calvino

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk. — Henry Ward Beecher

The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level. — Curt Sachs

Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures. — George Polya

Owen, I've never asked a guy to be my whole world before. How do I do that?" "That was perfect," Owen whispered, completely stunned. — Jessie G.

I enjoyed my 20s - they were torturous and beautiful. I learned so much about myself and about life and about the nature of people. — Craig Sheffer

I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan. — Hamid Karzai