Assaultive Quotes

#1. It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)

Peter Hochstein

#2. Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.

Belinda Subraman

#3. With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Catherine Doherty

#4. It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.

Chris Van Hollen

#5. The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

Harlan F. Stone

#6. There existed something in this world that bound a mage tighter than a blood oath: love. Love was the ultimate chain, the ultimate whip, and the ultimate slave driver.

Sherry Thomas

#7. Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. He was not so sure he would ever get to Lorie.

Larry McMurtry

#8. Silence is the fruit of occupation.

Anthony Doerr

#9. Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

Louise Slaughter

#10. No matter our sins or our sufferings, we are not isolated or abandoned. Christ is there for us, in good times and bad, and if we know how to follow Him, how to walk in His footsteps, then the road home doesn't seem quite so treacherous or impossible to scale.

Toni Sorenson

#11. Maisie was willing to bet there'd be a third living room within. Because what else would they do with all this space but buy sofas to fill it?

Erin Kellison

#12. Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

Albert Camus

#13. I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but it's not where my inclination is. I want to hide.

Tracy Letts

#14. Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Leonard Baskin

#15. Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.

Ertharin Cousin