Soup Du Jour Quotes & Sayings

Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained. — Richard Sennett

Is there any reason you wish to preserve amity with the Shadowhunters, besides the fact that one of them is your lover? — Cassandra Clare

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973. — Harvey Fierstein

Parents have been taught to fear fevers, to see them as bad, and to try to lower them as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, most parents don't know why fevers occur, what is really a "high fever" and how (and why) to work with fevers instead of against them to help their children recover. — Anonymous

I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action. — Tommy Bolin

To the degree that one relates sensitively, appropriately, and even charmingly, to the people and events faced in business and personal life, success will follow. — Herman L Glaess

I want you to know I want to be part of your life. All of it. I want to make you cry with happiness and I want to be here to wipe away the same tears when you're sad. — Priya Kanaparti

It is useful to remember, however, that neglecting valid stereotypes inevitably results in suboptimal judgments. Resistance to stereotyping is a laudable moral position, but the simplistic idea that the resistance is costless is wrong. The costs are worth paying to achieve a better society, but denying that the costs exist, while satisfying to the soul and politically correct, is not scientifically defensible. — Daniel Kahneman

I'm full of curiosity. — Sienna Miller

Only mass education, he used to say, would free my people, arguing that an educated man could not be oppressed because he could think for himself. — Nelson Mandela

And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever. — Markus Zusak

I'm sorry," he whispered. "I know I can make this up to you. Don't hate me. — Penelope Douglas