Standage Market Quotes & Sayings

Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success. — Henry Highland Garnet

Inflation is the senility of democracies. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Wait. What?" I demand. He releases me with a wet pop. "You. Me. We're a thing, if I do you in my bed." "Says who?" My words are tough, but I've heated up faster than the top-of-the-line stove I spotted in his spiffy kitchen. "Says me. My bed is a temple. It's reserved for solo spanks. And girlfriends. — Sarina Bowen

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty. — Pharoahe Monch

I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs. — Busta Rhymes

They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family. — Frederick Douglass

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions? — Charles Darwin

Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. "Well, there you go", she said. She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. "If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't", she said. "So many women make such a big deal out of these things. But you're stronger then that", she went back to her crossword puzzle. — Jeannette Walls

If beauty is a pillow,
You're a transparent
Pillowcase. — James Josue

I'm going to kick down that fucking door at the end of the long, dark hallway and show everyone that I deserve the light. — Tara Sivec

Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the moment when the thinking-feeling has surpassed the author's need to thinking - he no longer needs to think and now finds himself close to the grandeur of the nothing. I could say of the "everything". But "everything" is a quanitity, and quantity has a limit in its very beginning. The true incommensurability is the nothing, which has no barriers adn where a person can scatter their thinking-feeling. — Clarice Lispector

sometimes you have to dismantle
your life to find your passion. — Jennifer Pierre

I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it. — Norma McCorvey