Being Distant From The Family Quotes

#1. This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous.

Dave Eggers

#2. Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

George Monbiot

#3. Ugh," she muttered, tugging his hair. "Your are so pretty. Like delicate butterfly beneath my boot."
"Ugh, " he replied, pulling one of her own curls, which were thick and coarse. "You are so mad. Like a rabid hound that needs to be put down.

Kiersten White

#4. Perhaps, then, the words male and female have no general meaning.

Richard Dawkins

#5. The virtue of silence is highly commendable, and will contribute greatly to your ease and prosperity. The best proof of wisdom is to talk little, but to hear much. . . . - SAMUEL & SARAH ADAMS, THE COMPLETE SERVANT, 1825

Julie Klassen

#6. First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.

Osho

#7. To what saint do you pray?" the boy asked. The boy detected a faint smile on the big man's face in the dim light. "I pray to my God and Jesus Christ himself.

M.E. Hubbs

#8. Are we facing a new Dark Age, Angus? Possibly, Lou. A dark age in which our concentration spell is this long.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. I passed a little further on and heard a peacock say: Who made the grass and made the worms and made my feathers gay, He is a monstrous peacock, and He waveth all the night His languid tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light.

W.B.Yeats

#10. You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#11. SohelpmeGod if there weren't a hundred people staring at us, I would have his nuts in a vice. A steel one. With teeth.

Alessandra Torre

#12. I am new to this page and still learning how it works. This is a lot of fun though getting to meet and see new people.

Darlene Cozart