Themla Quotes & Sayings

There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going. — Chris Martin

Over the years I've noticed that only men use this phrase - "unlucky in love" - in reference exclusively to unmarried women, as if they can't possibly comprehend that contentment or even happiness is possible without the centrality of a man. — Kate Bolick

You don't write. You get out of the way. — Sallie Tisdale

At some point Levi had put his left arm around her and pulled her back against his chest - she'd been fidgeting and rubbing her back on the wall, and Levi just reached behind her and pulled her into him. — Rainbow Rowell

Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth. — Tertullian

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss. — H.W. Brands

If you ask me, people in hell just scream to hear their own voice and to pass time. — Chuck Palahniuk

They get the same rush from a well-executed trade that a writer finds in a well-turned paragraph - not because there's money in it, necessarily, but because it takes technical skill and some measure of creative thinking to pull off. — Anonymous

He's a man," Themla said.
"I guess that explains it."
"Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions - they're all alike. — Dean Koontz

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. — Johnny Cash

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along. — Allen Klein

When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything. — John De Ruiter

The growing consensus among experts was perhaps best reflected by the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, which issued a recommendation in 1973 that "no new institutions for adults should be built and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed."17 This recommendation was based on their finding that "the prison, the reformatory and the jail have achieved only a shocking record of failure. There is overwhelming evidence that these institutions create crime rather than prevent it. — Michelle Alexander

It is not a case of our people ... wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings. — Malcolm X