Sorvillo East Quotes & Sayings

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. — Robert W. Chambers

When I was seventeen I went to college to escape my father's impotent rage and my mother's infinite capacity for forgiveness. — Christina Baker Kline

He's giving it all back. I hate how much this hurts me, how much I'm clearly still hanging on to what we had. — Cynthia Hand

It takes twenty-one pounds of protein fed to a calf to produce a single pound of animal protein for humans. We get back less than 5 percent of what we put in. — Peter Singer

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie
or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it? — H.G.Wells

It is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. It is not politically correct to say such things ... But it cannot be denied that there are differences between men and women. Of course, these are differences between the averages only. There are wide variations about the mean. — Stephen Hawking

Despite her misgivings, she understood that he was somehow filling a void we might have not even known was there. — Sarah Dessen

If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell
in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to. — Bill Foster

Don't fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become. — Toni Sorenson