Unreflectingly Quotes & Sayings

Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man's life. — Jill Ker Conway

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear. — Pema Chodron

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween. — Gavin DeGraw

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson

That we have purpose for being who we are, and what we are, though we may not always know it. — Carrie Vaughn

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.' — Conan O'Brien

No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents. — Rhea Perlman

I did not try to keep her. I do not think I even wanted to. Between us, for the moment, there was nothing more to be said. I wanted above all to be alone and think things over. When she was ready to go, she said, "Better give me the gun. You won't want it on the journey, and if there is a check, I can manage it better than you can. But unloaded, please." I did not ask her how she would manage. I found I trusted her completely in things like that, and my own recent record did not inspire much confidence in the matter of keeping my weaponry out of enemy hands. — P.M. Hubbard

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. — Bill Gates

None of us are free to follow our hearts,"she said. "Not really. Is that what you're saying?"
He shook his head. "No one can stop you from loving someone," he said. — Cinda Williams Chima

Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals. — Christopher Isherwood