Sullying Means Quotes & Sayings

It has been said that in every being there is another being and this being is the true self. Not a double. Not an opposite. Simply, the one each of us strives to be all our lives. Some who have suffered cruelty, violence, or abuse as children somehow short-circuit this search with their cries. They are kidnapped by the other self and abandoned in a strangely familiar place where they are victim to the same cruelty, violence, or abuse, but can remember little or none of it until such time as they are strong enough to cope. — Philip Davison

Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit and are responsible for perpetuating, or not. When I hear so-and-so was "a product of his/her time" as an excuse for bigoted behavior, I remind folks that there have always been people in every time who did not agree with the bigoted systems they were born into and who actively fought them. The question is, which are we? — Kameron Hurley

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. — Herbert Simon

You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness. — Mary Doria Russell

Stop insisting on clearing your head - clear your fucking heart instead. — Charles Bukowski

To this day, I wake up at times, look in the mirror, and just stare, obsessed with the idea that the person I am in my head is something entirely different than what everyone else sees. That the way I look will prevent me from doing the things I want; that there really are sneetches with stars and I'm not one of them. I touch my face, I feel my skin, I check my color every day, and I swear it all feels right. But then someone says something and that sense of security and identity is gone before I know it. — Eddie Huang

My mom says before I turn eighteen she still has the right to murder me. — Kasie West

The hardest thing to remember about our time, of course, is simply that it is a time- we all instinctively think of it as the Day of Judgment. — G.K. Chesterton

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

But waiting is killing me. Don't they understand? Don't they remember what it feels like? I want to have things settled. I can't stand the idea of not knowing. — Samantha Schutz

I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life. — Yves Rossy

Cole stared at Cocky and felt like the worst parent in the world. — Alessandra Torre