Thrashing In Os Quotes & Sayings

All the fallacies of human reason had to be exhausted, before the light of a high truth could meet with ready acceptance. — Max Muller

The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked. — Germaine Greer

The game isn't big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker — Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

I made my way to the control room, where I had the most mind-numbing communication that I've ever experienced with a man. And no, I am not a chauvinist. But if you're a woman, you must realize by now your propensity toward largely complex and seemingly illogical thought processes, making you capable of inflicting unusually cruel amounts of distress upon the relatively simple mind of a man. Personally, I'd take that as a compliment. — Mixerman

Waste is also not waste, it can be recycled — Deepak Talwar

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day. — Arthur Golden

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away. — George Hickenlooper

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. — Charles Sturt

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted. — Laura San Giacomo

The days that passed had begun to melt together into weeks and months, creating a twisted mosaic of memories in her mind. Her dreams travelled a tortuous path between what had actually happened, and what could have been. — Kim Cormack

I don't feed the birds because they need me; I feed the birds because I need them. — Kathi Hutton

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns. — Johann Lamont

He takes a chicken tender and dunks it into the honey mustard. Something about that makes me sad. Because all the little things about him, like the way he loves honey mustard and the way he always forgets the cheese on my burger, aren't mine anymore. It's weird that everything can be the same, that he can go on liking honey mustard, and yet everything is different. — Lauren Barnholdt

I'd rather write about polar bears than people. — Mary Oliver