Smesna Strana Quotes & Sayings

Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception. — Herbert Marcuse

Perhaps a stranger would look at Toby and see little more than a skinny postadolescent with a shockingly bad haircut. But he was my boyfriend, my dom, my fragile prince, and he was nothing less than beautiful to me. — Alexis Hall

Finally Abdellahi Moussa Boqor asked, "So why are you doing this?" I paused for a moment, and then the words just came out of my mouth. "It is the will of the soul," I said. "The soul cannot be coerced. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

More often than not, what people put up online using social media is widely accessible because most systems are designed such that sharing with broader or more public audiences is the default. Many popular systems require users to take active steps to limit the visibility of any particular piece of shared content. This is quite different from physical spaces, where people must make a concerted effort to make content visible to sizable audiences.8 In networked publics, interactions are often public by default, private through effort. — Danah Boyd

I hate phrases like that. "Jesus vocab," El would call them. Things you learn in church that are hammered into you until they're so normal that you expect everyone else who doesn't go to church to know what you mean. — Julie Murphy

It seemed too good to be true and thus, be human philosophy, clearly false. — Stephenie Meyer

There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out! — Oprah Winfrey

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time. — Herbie Hancock

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable. — Anne Rice

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us — Arthur Golden

I, too, eat steamed human-blood buns. — Xiaobo Liu

Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse. — Shilpa Sandesh

It's a gift to be able to imagine heaven, and a rebirth to actually glimpse it. — Vaddey Ratner