Christmas Short Storiees Quotes

#1. The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

Shereen El Feki

#2. The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

Honore De Balzac

#3. We do not explain my husband's insane abuse
and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

Anne Sexton

#4. When men at last accept the fact that they cannot successfully lie to themselves, and at last learn to take themselves seriously, they discover previously unknown and often remarkable recuperative powers within themselves.

Rollo May

#5. Louisa rested her head against his shoulder. She inhaled a happy breath and allowed herself to relax and let the connection between them seep into her body.

Debra Holland

#6. If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.

Grace Slick

#7. What better allies are there than those organized around their own needs and demands, a functional and not merely charitable alliance?

Amy Sonnie

#8. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Paul The Apostle

#9. It's the light of the oncoming train.

Robert Lowell

#10. If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are much superior to them in strength, number, and interest.

Joseph Addison

#11. Without art the rudeness of reality would make life unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Bertrand Russell