Wollstonecrafts Quotes & Sayings

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes. — Elliott Abrams

I'm a librarian, not an oracle. — Libba Bray

No one has ever been able to pinpoint the trigger."
"But?"
"But it is legend that ambrosia only rises when-"
She held her breath.
"- an archangel loves true. — Nalini Singh

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. — Hilaire Belloc

In communication, you get back what you send out. — Marshall Sylver

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem. — Carl Jung

War is hot, not cold. — Kenneth Eade

Helianthus snorted. "Olorun is like his mother: he will only change as the face of a rock changes. But . . . I think he missed you. — Ash Gray

I have a lot of books I want to write. — Douglas Brinkley

Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other ... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. — Euripides

The limit of a person's will, at least in one respect, is the limit of that person's ability to believe. — David Kane

If you're always angry, always yelling at people, ultimately that just means you depend on them. — Banana Yoshimoto

In this America, too, the Christian teaching that every human soul is unique and precious has been stressed, by the prophets of self-fulfillment and gurus of self-love, at the expense of the equally important teaching that every human soul is fatally corrupted by original sin. Absent the latter emphasis, religion becomes a license for egotism and selfishness, easily employed to justify what used to be considered deadly sins. The result is a society where pride becomes 'healthy self-esteem', vanity becomes 'self-improvement', adultery becomes 'following your heart', greed and gluttony become 'living the American dream'. — Ross Douthat

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary. — Paul Scott

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional, or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the energy and inventiveness of the younger generation to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward acceptance of diversity, community, and fairness, and I hope they have as much fun as I did in my adolescences achieving what we Sixties kids only imagined. — Mike A. Males