Tarabotti Paternal Tyranny Quotes & Sayings

Life is truly a miracle and must be protected, safeguarded and treasured. — Q.M. Herrera

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally. — Marquis De Lafayette

Art is difficult, transient is her reward. — Friedrich Schiller

Knock. Pound on heaven's door if you have to, but don't give up. God hears all sincere prayers. — Toni Sorenson

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed. — John Howard Griffin

Habit enables us to cling to the familiar, to the self we think we know with a persistence almost irresistible. An anodyne for the terror of the unknown, it effectively keeps us from knowing, and is fatal in itself. Habit is a fiction the organism requires to dim perception. It screens us from the world, and from the true world of the self. Habit - no matter how intense the suffering it causes - is the last thing the personality will give up. It is arming itself against danger. The weapons may be more painful to use than the pain they seek to deflect. No matter. Habit allows us to live - by which Proust means it allows us to exist while it simultaneously compels us to miss Life. — Howard Moss

[ ... ]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard. — David Platt

I'm a writer. Therefore, I am not sane. — Edgar Allan Poe

There's nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can't learn in just one month on a local paper. — Kelvin MacKenzie

Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults. — John Scalzi