The Winthrop Woman Quotes & Sayings

Fire can warm or consume,
water can quench or drown,
wind can caress or cut.
And so it is with human relationshps;
we can both create and destroy,
nurture and terrorize,
traumatize and heal each other — Bruce D. Perry

Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below
Man can receive, or Providence bestow. — Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing. — Neville Marriner

Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato's Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature. — Susan Sontag

I cannot keep myself away from ice cream. I have two flavors that are my favorite: chocolate chip cookie dough and vanilla swiss almond. I can eat a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting, no problem! — Brandi Chastain

There is no news industry. — Clay Shirky

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. — Colson Whitehead

Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world. — Leonard Michaels

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream. — Robert Brustein

A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man. — John Winthrop

If the world is something you accept rather than interpret, then you're susceptible to the influence of charismatic idiots. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human. — Ellar Coltrane

I am made of cobweb that tears at a touch. But you, Bess, have fiber like the great seines that seldom break no matter their burden,yet if they do they can be mended again and again. — Anya Seton