Terlihat Quotes & Sayings

There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children ... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that. — Jackson Katz

They have sex. They do not have a sex. In their erotic lives, they are not required to act out their status in a category system - because there is no category system. There are no sexes to belong to, so sex between creatures is free to be between genuine individuals - not representatives of a category. They have sex. They do not have a sex. — John Stoltenberg

Or recite this mantra: om mani padme hum (pronounced "om mani padmay hum"). — Dalai Lama XIV

Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here. — James Henley Thornwell

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick. — Bette Midler

One must get used to speaking of one's virtues bravely, to people's faces. Who is to know, if not we ourselves, to what degree we are good? — Venedikt Yerofeyev

You are capable of good deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How do you do it?" I ask softly, and I'm no longer asking just about her and Josef but about myself as well. "How do you get up every morning and not remember? — Jodi Picoult

When I looked into those eyes of his that saw everything, those eyes that saw me, I knew the fight would be worth it. The struggle to let him in when I wanted to barricade the windows and lower the gates would be a battle I'd never regret fighting. — Nicole Williams

If your deepest self is singing and coaxing you straight toward the bonfire, is it better to turn away? Stop your ears with wax? Ignore all the perverse glory your heart is screaming at you? Set yourself on the course that will lead you dutifully towards the norm, reasonable hours and regular medical check-ups, stable relationships and steady career advancement, the New York Times and brunch on Sunday, all with the promise of being somehow a better person? Or - like Boris - is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name? It's — Donna Tartt

We keep falling into the same ditches, you know? I mean, we learn more and more about the physical universe, more about our own bodies, more technology, but somehow, down through history, we go on building empires of one kind or another, then destroying them in one way or another. We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that's the way things are. That's the way things always have been. — Octavia E. Butler

Giving in order to get is not giving. — Alan Cohen

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad. — Leo Tolstoy