Scurrilous Etymology Quotes & Sayings

Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people. — Rand Paul

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened. — William Wordsworth

Even a small group of people can change the galaxy. — Chuck Wendig

I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression ... — Marilyn Frye

Sometimes there's something that you need a few takes to get it and if it takes 15 takes, it takes 15 takes. It really depends. — Nick Jonas

Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals. — Antoine Lavoisier

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. — Charles Caleb Colton

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. — Robert Burns

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God! — William Rounseville Alger

Straight to the top, rooftop glows. With a hand full of girls and they all so foreign. Brain so poisoned, rainbows flowing. — The Weeknd

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house. — Lev Grossman