Skinny Privilege Quotes & Sayings

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records. — Wallace Stegner

In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure. — Alex Jones

The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience ... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values. — Carroll Quigley

Anytime you're playing a major, the last four or five holes, it's not going to be easy. It's never a guarantee. It's never easy. — Dustin Johnson

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. — Stella Benson

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. No, she's all right. — Kami Garcia

Love and peace are transmitted not through words but the soft light of the eyes and the curved lips of a gentle smile. — Ilchi Lee

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD. — Robert Osborne

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. — Lao-Tzu

I feel sorry ... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself. — Beth Ditto

It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration of irreducibly complex functions. Practical and theoretical reasoning is often irreducibly complex. A given argument has several well-matched, interacting reasons, and the removal of any one of them makes the argument break down. — Angus J.L. Menuge