Sthirteens Quotes & Sayings

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end. — Charles Baudelaire

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible. — Anne McCaffrey

We fought for equality for all, for women too. For freethinking, fighting the lies of church and state, for what Nat called the Republic of Letters. That was what we believed in twenty years ago. But now, seems like all that has gone. It's church and Sunday best, and votes for men." "What — M.J. Carter

If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp. — Edwina Currie

This boy was so far out of my league it was embarrassing. I found myself staring at him, trying to find some minute flaw that might justify dragging him back to my level. Finding nothing, I decided that having a dimple on only one cheek was practically a deformity. — G.J. Walker-Smith

I GOT BOURBON-FACED ON SHIT STREET! — Kresley Cole

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep. — Nikolai Gogol

One must work, nothing
but work, and one must have patience ... — Auguste Rodin

They key was not to panic-panic made you stupid. Panic got you killed. — Sarah J. Maas

How do you get people to want to live in time, to have a sense of the importance of time for growth, development, of the need for ups-and-downs, of non-homogenized development? [...] A revolution in the U.S. is only going to be led and made by people with some sense of the thickness of time, of time as duration, of time as heterogenous, of development through contradiction, not in a straight line. — James Boggs