Substantively Vs Substantially Quotes & Sayings

The tulips are too red in the first place, they hurt me.
Even through the gift paper I could hear them breathe
Lightly, through their white swaddlings, like an awful baby.
Their redness talks to my wound, it corresponds.
They are subtle : they seem to float, though they weigh me down,
Upsetting me with their sudden tongues and their color,
A dozen red lead sinkers round my neck.
Nobody watched me before, now I am watched.
The tulips turn to me, and the window behind me
Where once a day the light slowly widens and slowly thins,
And I see myself, flat, ridiculous, a cut-paper shadow
Between the eye of the sun and the eyes of the tulips,
And I have no face, I have wanted to efface myself.
The vivid tulips eat my oxygen. — Sylvia Plath

Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened. — Jose Serrano

I don't know ... but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control. — Chris Brown

It's hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It's hard to know where to look. — Nathan Filer

It is one of the perils of our so-called civilized age that we do not yet acknowledge enough, or cherish enough, this connection between soul and landscape - between our own best possibilities, and the view from our own windows. We need the world as much as it needs us, and we need it in privacy, intimacy, and surety. We need the field from which the lark rises - bird that is more than itself, that is the voice of the universe: vigorous, godly job. Without the physical world such hope it: hacked off. Is: dried up. Without wilderness no fish could leap and flash, no deer could bound soft as eternal waters over the field; no bird could open its wings and become buoyant, adventurous, valorous beyond even the plan of nature. Nor could we. — Mary Oliver

You make me sound dictatorial," he said. "Finish your breakfast. — Thea Harrison

Won't you at least call a gynecologist in to see me? You're not a specialist in this area." "I don't need you to tell me what my specialties are," he said angrily. "It would be best for everybody concerned if you have an abortion, no matter which way you have it. — Assata Shakur

Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing. — Eleanor Morse

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation. — George Bernard Shaw

There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality. — William Faulkner