Verrater Quotes & Sayings

The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums. — Terre Thaemlitz

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty. — Jean De La Bruyere

Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country. — Mikhail Botvinnik

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy. — Bryant McGill

Modelling, fashion and film have all encouraged me to learn more about issues and to feel empowered enough to do something about them. — Lily Cole

Well, but, Mrs. Jervis, said I, let me ask you, if he can stoop to like such a poor girl as me, as perhaps he may, (for I have read of things almost as strange, from great men to poor damsels,) What can it be for? - He may condescend, perhaps, to think I may be good enough for his harlot; and those things don't disgrace men that ruin poor women, as the world goes. — Samuel Richardson

The dream lives on, Reece, and it never gives up on you, no matter what you might think. Dreams sometimes just change. — J.M. Darhower

Crying can bring such relief. — Anne Frank

Finally, while I don't want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens's Great Expectations over Kathy Acker's Great Expectations, though I'll take Lauren Fairbanks's Sister Carrie over Dreiser's any day--there's a whole other world of novels out there most people never even hear of, much less read. Let's go see. — Steven Moore

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them. — Carl Shapiro

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months. — Olga Broumas

To show you all my scars, is not to tell you that this Dunya would always leave you wounded, and bruised, and on knees, but to show you that see, healing is always possible. Healing is easy. Healing is beautiful. — Khadija Rupa