Daccsw Quotes

#1. The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

Ernest Holmes

#2. I think everyone is wounded in their sex," I said. "I can't think of one person who isn't.

Andre Aciman

#3. It may not be long before Corporate Corruption is made legal and renamed a Lobbying Fee.

Anonymous

#4. You don't need to throw something away just because you're afraid of how it might turn out.

Jeanette Battista

#5. ; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignorance, he recognizes the presence of a mystery exterior to himself: here is an excuse that flatters his laziness and vanity at the same time.

Simone De Beauvoir

#6. It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

Rita Dove

#7. Fundamentalists tell us to fear the specter of special rights for gay citizens, though of course gay Americans aren't after special rights - merely equal rights. The irony is that special rights actually do exist in this country-for religious groups.

Sean Faircloth

#8. The day was cold, and every time the little transparent fans of water swept in and drew back, the wet sand mirrored a clear sky and the sun on its way down.

Gina Berriault

#9. I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

Richard Griffiths

#10. We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

Alain De Botton

#11. I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.

Tom Coburn

#12. Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.

Mikhail Naimy

#13. Never thought I'd see a jaguar brought to its knees by rhino shit. Oberon

Kevin Hearne

#14. I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

Zadie Smith