Finerty Quotes

#1. Hope is cruel and has no consequence

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#2. Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Alyson Noel

#3. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. Morpheus, The Matrix, 1999

Susan Finerty

#4. Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

Albert Einstein

#5. And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced on it with combat boots. Did he sit in that seditious palace day after day and not even bother to scrape it off of his soles with a passing thought of her?

V.S. Carnes

#6. The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.

Leanne Shapton

#7. I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.

Tamsin Egerton

#8. Patriarchy is having the power to name.

Kate Zambreno

#9. Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

Paulo Freire

#10. Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

Mother Teresa

#11. Normally, a view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our minds. But this can never match Reality, simply because the world isn't frozen. Nevertheless we carry on as though the way we've frozen it in our minds is the way it actually is.

Steve Hagen

#12. You live your life, I live mine. And the rest we'll live together.

Daniel Glattauer

#13. Books are much better companions to me than people.

Rakesh Satyal