Topcoats Quotes & Sayings

Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint. — Wendell Berry

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. — Jeanette Winterson

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have. — Donald Glover

Like the first breath of living wind to the sailor becalmed and starving, I felt hope stir. — Mary Stewart

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change? — Sri Chinmoy

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature. — Naomi Klein

Abby had a little experience with the rap genre already - she used to spit rhymes with this little blond neighbor kid when she would visit her aunt and uncle in Detroit. Marshall something. Great kid. A little tightly wound. — Andrew Shaffer

When one removes this factor by surgical repair, the patient is cast adrift from the more or less acceptable emotional protection it has offered and soon he finds, to his surprise and discomfort, that life is not all smooth sailing even for those with unblemished, "ordinary" faces. He is unprepared to cope with this situation without the support of a "handicap," and he may turn to the less simple, but similar, protection of the behavior patterns of neurasthenia, hysterical conversion, hypochondriasis or the acute anxiety states.17 — Erving Goffman

ecosystem than to educate — Sandra Hill

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting. — Charles Sturt

When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to enjoy the cold and the wind of those times ... It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people. — E.B. White