Wansings Small Quotes & Sayings

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury. — Barbara Tuchman

But it was better not to speak of the things you wanted. — George R R Martin

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. — Sarah Addison Allen

By itself, faith can't deliver God, but it does — Deepak Chopra

If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves. — Joseph Bruchac

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice. — Andrea Dworkin

Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny. — Mary C. Ames

That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him. — Lauren Oliver

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty. — Matt Kibbe

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers. — Ida Lupino

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish. — Chevy Chase

There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him. — Matthew Lewis

You have to do whatever it takes to be with the person you love. — Kiera Cass

Sometimes, a gal just can't have too many men.
Maya — Cynthia Eden