Varvel Cartoons Quotes & Sayings

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. — Christopher Lasch

Sadistic serial killers feel their victims' pain in exactly the same way that you or I might feel it. They feel it cognitively and objectively. And they feel it emotionally and subjectively, too. But the difference between them and us is that they commute that pain to their own subjective pleasure. — Kevin Dutton

I got an early education from television. — Debra Wilson

Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.
("The Undying Thing") — Barry Pain

Feed two birds with one crumb. — Mischa Temaul

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark? — Ursula K. Le Guin

At last the spring thaw came, and graves were laboriously prepared for the nine silent harvests of the grim reaper which waited in the tomb. — H.P. Lovecraft

The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not. — Jennifer Donnelly

She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.
And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow. — Lauren Oliver

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light. — Karen Marie Moning

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together. — Harlan F. Stone

To prosper, your superior must prosper. — Pierce Brown

My unique path through life has led me, however, to fear known threats but seldom the unknown, while most people fear both. — Dean Koontz