Valita Carpenter Quotes & Sayings

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class. — Ernest Mandel

Every civilisation that disavows its barbarian potential has already capitulated to barbarism. — Slavoj Zizek

There is no ME without books; they're everything I remember from childhood, from maturity ... All that's happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading. — Spencer Gordon

But the rip in her blouse was large, her hunger vast, and her patience negligible even under better circumstances. — Katherine Arden

Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new. — Fabiola Gianotti

What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work. — Boris Johnson

You should have seen the look on your skull... — Rich Burlew

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all. — Madeline Zima

Yes. I'm going to sink into what I feel for you. I'm going to sink into the good times and the scary shit. I'm going to sink with you, because I'm tired of drifting and treading, never committing to anything. I want to sink with you. — Steph Campbell

I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the human will, nor extenuate the evil of human actions. Predestination, foreknowledge, and providence, only secure the event, and render it certainly future, in a way and manner (incomprehensibly indeed by us; but) perfectly consistent with the nature of second causes. — Augustus Toplady

A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish. — James P. Gorman

That form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves ... — Marcel Proust

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name. — Bryan Adams

Those who are still afraid of men have no fear of God, and those who have fear of God have ceased to be afraid of men. All preachers of the gospel will do well to recollect this saying daily. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Speaking as a mother of unborn generations, I'm against it. — Terry Pratchett