Sexual Particulars Quotes & Sayings

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

And 'barbarity,' I fear, is simply a word for unfamiliarity that threatens. — R. Scott Bakker

Of course one's sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one's class, race, gender, and sexual identification. ... But [regarding] national character ... , aside from references to a national aesthetic - literary, musical, and choreographic, there are two poles I reference: minimalist and maximalist. I love them both - the cryptic poems of Emily Dickinson folded up in tiny packets and hidden away in a box, the sparse, understated choreographies of Merce; but also the "trashy, profane and obscene" poems of Whitman and Ginsberg, [and] Martha Graham's expressionism. I am, myself, a minimalist. But I love distortion guitar and the wild exhibitionism of so many American artists. Also, these divisions are false. Emily Dickinson, in fact, can be as trashy and obscene as the best of them! Anyway, Dickinson and Whitman are at the heart of this narrative. They are the Dancing Queen and the Guitar Hero. — Barbara Browning

Ben's ex was a Victoria's Secret supermodel. Translation: Fuck my life. — Kendall Ryan

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it. — John Sweeney

Better, then, to go light on the sexual particulars, and think instead of who's winning and who's losing at any given point. How is power being exchanged here? I want to say, "Who's on top?" But that would of course be sleazy, and just generally beneath me ... — Michael Cunningham

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. — Maynard Jackson

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. — Laurence Sterne

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees. — Jane Goodall

The human being first put values into things, in order to preserve itself - it created a meaning for things, a human's meaning! Therefore it calls itself 'human' - that is: the evaluator. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I've always played my best golf in the summer. — Keegan Bradley

The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world can be ours when we willingly obey the Lord's commandments. — Thomas S. Monson

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again. — Iain Lawrence

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around. — Julia Glass