Tenuousness Tab Quotes & Sayings

You two had something that had to be kept on ice, yes, incorruptible, yes!
and death was the only icebox where you could keep it ... — Tennessee Williams

Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties. — John Dewey

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position. — Frans De Waal

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away — Nicholas Sparks

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids. — Susan Orlean

Portland's good at wet. The best. — Devon Monk

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day. — Jonathan Swift

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience. — Raymond Pettibon

True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. — J. Oswald Sanders

The model of "social order." Briefly, a social order may be defined as the consequence of any set of moral norms that regulates the way in which persons pursue objectives. — Erving Goffman

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like." — Gordon Allport

Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State. — James Fox

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs, and you don't whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it, you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow you've got to put up with the rain". Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits. — David Brent

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals. — Al Yankovic

That's what metal means to me, feeling that feeling when you hear something that totally turns you on. — Chris Reifert