Catbug Rebecca Quotes

#1. Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#2. I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

Norman Finkelstein

#3. I've never quit anything in my life.

Rob Ford

#4. God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

Mary Doria Russell

#5. Fifty-fifty marriages are an impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work.
In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker.
Someone has to delegate responsibility, and God has ordained that this should be the husband.

Wayne Mack

#6. You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

Stephenie Meyer

#7. Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

Austin O'Malley

#8. He turned on to the track and wondered why no birds were singing. The only sound he could hear was the buzz and rattle of a drill, which he assumed to be the farmer doing something to a fence. It was, in fact, a woodpecker whose presence would have thrilled him had he known what it was.

Ruth Rendell

#9. Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially.

Michael Sandel

#10. Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

Michael Sandel

#11. To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Blaise Pascal