Southland Opening Quotes & Sayings

A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem. — James Marcus Bach

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. — Jonathan Ive

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active. — Jessica Valenti

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. — Benjamin Franklin

We need to get home and put some ointments and ice on the stings. Vinegar will make it worse, so if you thought Giraffe Boy could pee on you, you're shit out of luck."
She agrees as if prepared for this - the punishment, the medication, the swelling, the pain that hurts her now and the pain that will hurt her later. She seems okay with my disapproval. She's gotten her story, after all, and she's beginning to see how much easier physical pain is to tolerate than emotional pain. I'm unhappy that she's learning this at such a young age.
"The hospital will have ointments and ice," she says. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Have you any idea how long a ten-inch cock is? — Larry Kramer

When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down. — Jens Nordvig

Phoebe regarded Kevin with eyes as chilly as a Lions uniform in the middle of a losing Detroit November. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Came the day of the first trial. The propellants were hydrazine and WFNA. We were all gathered around waiting for the balloon to go up, when Dr. Milton Scheer(Uncle Milty) warned,
"Hold it - the acid valve is leaking!"
"Go ahead - fire anyway!" Paul ordered.

I looked around and signaled to my own gang, and we started backing away gently, like so many cats with wet feet. — John D. Clark

She'd said "died" as a courtesy to him - nobody in her family could stand people who said "passed away" - but — Jennifer DuBois

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat — Bell Hooks

Why pray if we cannot change God? ... is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it. — Peter Kreeft

I'm done talking to you for today, my chips are worn out.
~Roc — Dom Testa

It is as if joy were the default setting of human emotion, not the furtive, fugitive glimpses it becomes in lives compromised by necessity, familiarity, "maturity," suffering. — Christian Wiman