Sea State Scale Quotes & Sayings

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. — Audre Lorde

truth is, I look upon both candidates in the same light; and should think myself a traitor to the constitution of my country, if I voted for either. If every elector would bring the same consideration home to his conscience, we should not have such reason to exclaim against the venality of pts.5 But we are all a pack of venal and corrupted rascals; so lost to all sense of honesty, and all tenderness of character, that, in a little time, I am fully persuaded, nothing will be infamous but virtue and public-spirit. — Tobias Smollett

Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information. — Gail Carriger

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world ... concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects. — Julian Jaynes

I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person. — Gabrielle Union

There is an hour when you realize: Here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time — Carol Oates

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)] — George Bernard Shaw

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a
woman to do that kind of work. — Harper Lee

I bring Kate into my chest and she's so soft it's easy to want to hold her tight. She squirms a little in my arms and I pat her on the back the way Ashleigh does when she's trying to calm her. She relaxes her heavy head on my shoulder and that's it. It's over. I'm done. I'm a Kate lover. "I'd like a Kate, — J.A. Huss

They had something close in front of them, a picture in front of their eyes that came between them and the world, which was the thing most adults seemed to have. — Alice Munro

doesn't she hate me? It wasn't that I wanted Sara to hate me, I didn't, but she should. Backing — Aleatha Romig

Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one. — Hugh Downs

Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and armor, and become more self-accepting, revealing, and honest. — Gay Talese

My painting is a contest
between life and sleep. — Francis Picabia