Unintented Quotes & Sayings

We get used to pretty ... eventually, we get used to sunsets and falling stars and things that sparkle. — Laura Miller

What do you know of souls and hearts and how they break here? You don't know me at all. — Amie Kaufman

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. — Bruce Babbitt

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.. — Bill Ayers

Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well. — Pema Chodron

The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over. — Annette Dumbach

If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing to our natural sensibilities. But the simple rule for prayer is this: Begin praying and your taste for prayer will increase. The more you pray, the more you will acquire the desire for prayer, the energy for prayer, and the sense of purpose in prayer. — Leslie Ludy

You don't need to climb a mountain in order to know that it's high. — Paulo Coelho

That's what forgiving was: seeing someone for what they were, flaws and all, not what you wanted them to be, not what they should have been. — B.G. Harlen

Women, it is said, possess corresponding power. Through consciousness-raising, women found that women's so-called power was the other side of female powerlessness. A women's supposed power to deny sex is the underside of her actual lack of power to stop it. Women's supposed power to get men to do things for them by nagging or manipulating is the other side of the power they lack to have their every need anticipated, to carry out the task themselves, or to invoke physical fear to gain compliance with their desires without even having to mention it. Once the veil is lifted, once relations between the sexes are seen as power relations, it becomes impossible to see as simply unintented, well-intentioned, or innocent the actions through which women are told every day what is expected and when they have crossed some line. — Catharine A. MacKinnon

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there. — Pitbull