Toggles For Elastic Quotes & Sayings

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte

The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable. — Nenia Campbell

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody — Dorothy L. Sayers

Starbuck especially elucidates this peculiar division between physical and moral courage. The first mate, "while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man."52 Starbuck is tormented by his complicity in what he foresees as Ahab's "impious end, but feel that I must help him to it." "But he drilled deep down," Starbuck exclaims, "and blasted all my reason out of me!"53 Moral cowardice like Starbuck's turns us into hostages. Mutiny is the only salvation for the Pequod's crew. And mutiny is our only salvation. — Chris Hedges

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl. — Marion Barry

That's why the recent popularity of juicing (the removal of fiber from fruits to make easy-to-drink juices) has been a disaster. Juicing simply removes a primary control rod (i.e., fiber) from the carbohydrate, meaning that the carbohydrate enters the bloodstream too fast. — Barry Sears