Semipermeable Quotes & Sayings

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass ... — Erica Jong

We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission; a boat stays afloat until the water gets in. — Joyce Rachelle

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any. — Ben Affleck

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. — Stephen Decatur

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant. — Shirley Maclaine

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. — George Washington

One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan. — Bindi Irwin

Don't be an asshole. Just because you have one, it doesn't mean it's okay to act like it. — Christian Simamora

Two make a fire. — Wolf DeVoon

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right ones a fighting chance- Victoria Barron- dedicated attorney and protagonist of Misplaced — SL Hulen

We've never needed one before!' 'I think perhaps you have needed one, you just haven't used one, — Terry Pratchett