Sordidly Quotes & Sayings

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content. — Hugh Reginald Haweis

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children — Christopher Wills

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level. — Shirley Maclaine

You can do more, you can always do more. — Dan Marino

You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress. — Geraldine Ferraro

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments. — Jenny Slate

When we look at things differently, things look different. — Toni Sorenson

Mary is no theologian in an academic sense. But as Luke tells the story, she and Elizabeth are the first theologians of a new faith. Their gift is an intrepid willingness to look for God's purpose in their own and one another's lives. If they are blood kin, they are also kindred spirits, helping to build up one another's strength and courage. — Kate Cooper

The Dream Box wasn't a place, but it was a destination. It wasn't life, but it was a way of life. Reese wasn't awake in the Meat Space the way he was in Cyber, where a billion liters of endorphins blasted through the biological wiring of his veins with every corner his mind turned, where every conscious or subconscious choice he made was infused with importance. Linked in, he could partake of the guiltless ecstasy that was up for grabs, even for people like him. Linked in as Balmus, he could even be his own hero. — Daniel Pike

Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships. — Catherynne M Valente

even if we laid off 100 percent of the employees, the infrastructure costs would still kill us without a sharper sales ramp. — Ben Horowitz

If literature matters today, it is chiefly because it seems to many conventional critics one of the few remaining places where, in a divided, fragmented world, a sense of universal value may still be incarnate; and where, in a sordidly material world, a rare glimpse of transcendence can still be attained. — Terry Eagleton

Skinheads are becoming part of our overall movement. — Tom Metzger

We who are so lucky as to be born into the light - who see it every day and never think about it, we're blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better. — L.J.Smith