Wisenberg Sol Quotes & Sayings

Childbirth shapes women as a horizon of anticipation. Women come into consciousness, she speculated, imagining a future pain toward which their bodies inevitably propel them. — Leslie Jamison

When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years. — Suzanne Collins

I don't know how people pray who don't believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they're possible I'll do them. — John Piper

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about. — Vik Muniz

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can. — Alice Walker

When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires. — Marcus Aurelius

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem. — Caroline Knapp

I need to use the Dam Bathroom, I need to use the Dam Snack bar, I want a Dam Tee-Shirt. — Rick Riordan

You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails. — Elizabeth Edwards

The Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America. — Richard Brautigan

It's better to hang around people that want to see you succeed than to hang around those that threatens your success. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communing already with a sky which beholds an earth entirely at rest. — Virginia Woolf

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray
From the great source of mental Day,
Free, generous, and refin'd!
Descend with all thy treasures fraught,
Illumine each bewilder'd thought,
And bless my labour'g mind. — Mark Akenside

The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat. — Thomas Paine

Isn't it true (I thought), that one is almost never present, or rather never fully present, and that's because we have only a halfhearted, chaotic and slipshod, disgraceful and vile relationship with out surroundings. — Witold Gombrowicz