Wannabees Somerset Quotes & Sayings

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not. — Steven Pinker

I wanted someone to hold me close so I slide across and snuggled in tight and said, 'Hold me.' He did, and it was tender and truly sweet, but without a trace of that wild carnal edge you would have to cross if you want to get so close together you can't tell each other apart.

I pushed it. I said, 'I want to get closer. I want you to love who I am.' Love doesn't do much for the powers of explanation, but since Love has never asked for one itself, that seems fair enough. — Jim Dodge

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. — Joel Salatin

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Relativism poses as humble by saying: "We are not smart enough to know what the truth is - or if there is any universal truth." It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It's like a servant saying: I am not smart enough to know which person here is my master - or if I even have a master. The result is that I don't have a master and I can be my own master. That is in reality what happens to relativists: In claiming to be too lowly to know the truth, they exalt themselves as supreme arbiter of what they can think and do. This is not humility. This is the essence of pride. — John Piper

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough. — Harold Ramis

He won again. I'm beginning to realize that competing for who can stay the quietest isn't really a good idea when my competitor is naturally the quietest person I've ever met. — Colleen Hoover

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. — Samuel Johnson

You know what the worst thing about adults is?"

"No."

"They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Sometimes we don't pivot in the direction of personal success but toward even greater pain. But here's the catch: a calling will always lead you to a life that matters, one you can be proud of. — Jeff Goins

I will get married when I build a house in Banana Island — Ice Prince

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success. — Heather Bresch

If you respect your body enough to put modest clothes on, then more people will respect you as a person, — Sadie Robertson

Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for your persecution, but on the society that has permitted this lawlessness. — Vidkun Quisling