Wakinyan Tanka Quotes & Sayings

Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing. — Helen Fisher

All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, freezing and condensing what's seen into something that it is not. — James Elkins

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied. — Katherine Paterson

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future. — Al Gore

Love is endless, you can never run out no matter how much of it you give away. — Eric T. Benoit

I've gotten pretty good at making myself feel ashamed. I can even use shame in a theoretical sense to make myself do the right thing BEFORE I do the wrong thing. — Allie Brosh

The actions of yesterday, the pretenses of tomorrow, and the presence of now, have forever added to history. — Brandy Nacole

Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body."
"Shame," I mumbled.
"What?"
"Nothing. Go on. — Rick Riordan

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives. — Michael Moore

Well digital media and social media are eliminating the middle man - in the old days, you had to go through the editors. Or the television producer, you know? Now you have people talking directly to each other, globally who have never met. I think you put the "word" in "word of mouth." — Kelly Cutrone

Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216 — Fatema Mernissi

Don't you wish it could happen? Your mind wiped clean like a hard drive? Start again without memories? — Anuradha Roy

How, I wondered, was one meant to live without killing, when killing sought one out at every turn? The world made its monsters indeed. — Charlotte McConaghy

Books, the children of the brain. — Jonathan Swift