Hypergamy Quotes

#1. What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

F. W. De Klerk

#2. No matter how good your memory is, you can never recollect the day your heart lost its virginity.

Subhasis Das

#3. But a century from now, your mortal associates will be rotting in the earth, whereas, barring amputation or radical shifts in fashion, you will still be putting your pants on one leg at a time.

Jim Butcher

#4. Trade is a social act.

John Stuart Mill

#5. Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.

Sydney J. Harris

#6. 'I Like things that are trapped,' he explained. 'Too many things leave us forever.'

Sara Shepard

#7. Lesson: If you're going to view blinds as taxes, be a Republican about them.

Colson Whitehead

#8. The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.

Thomas Malthus

#9. With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Paulo Coelho

#10. The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

Alan Watts

#11. I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Umberto Eco

#12. I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

Norah O'Donnell

#13. The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#14. He'd never had much to do with the police in the Nottinghamshire village where he lived. They existed at a distance, as it were, and Joshua's life hadn't led him closer than that. By accident his actions had been law-abiding.

Alan Sillitoe

#15. A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing.

Ken Follett