Vahina Giocante Quotes & Sayings

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it. — Margaret Atwood

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly. — Julian Casablancas

We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps. — Vince Poscente

I had no idea what to say to this. I had been nurtured in the U.S. school system on a steady diet of the Great Men theory of history. History was full of Great Men. I had to take separate Women's History courses just to learn about what women were doing while all the men were killing each other. It turned out many of them were governing countries and figuring out rather effective methods of birth control that had sweeping ramifications on the makeup of particular states, especially Greece and Rome.
Half the world is full of women, but it's rare to hear a narrative that doesn't speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man's daughter. A man's wife. — Kameron Hurley

He goes along just as a water lily
Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
Unweighed down by passion or intensity
Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
And he finds a home in me
For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap — Fiona Apple

....we have discovered a great social secret in Canada. We have contrived to solve problems which would ruin other countries merely by ignoring their existence. — Hugh MacLennan

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me. — Janis Ian

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can. — Mark Twain

Knowledge is talkative, refuses to shut up..
Wisdom is so subtle, refuses to be invisible.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Every one of us is guilty of something! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Is it?" he insisted. "Is this it? This time I die?" COULD BE. "Could be? What sort of answer is that?" said Vimes. A VERY ACCURATE ONE. YOU SEE, YOU ARE HAVING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHICH INESCAPABLY MEANS THAT I MUST UNDERGO A NEAR-VIMES EXPERIENCE. DON'T MIND ME. CARRY ON WITH WHATEVER YOU WERE DOING. I HAVE A BOOK. Vimes — Terry Pratchett

Would everyone stop saying arse!" ... "I know, its called an ass, people. Ass — Samantha Young