Licit Quotes

#1. This is not a lie: Memory has the taste and texture of cooked meat. Eat it and live. Remember, but only what it is licit to remember.

In Aerograd, the word for meat and memory are the same.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good.

John Braithwaite

#3. In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor, ... I underscore the verb 'stop.' I'm not saying 'bomb' or 'make war,' just 'stop.' And the means that can be used to stop them must be evaluated.

Pope Francis

#4. I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

Ted Cruz

#5. People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

Albert Bandura

#6. I closed my eyes. I used to think I was protecting the world, too. But it wasn't that simple. Nothing was. Who were we to decide that anyone or anything didn't deserve the spark of life they had been given?

Kiersten White

#7. She screams my name, and I know she's coming.
God, I love her voice.

Emma Chase

#8. I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.

Linda Ronstadt

#9. Do you think it will always be this way?"
"What?"
"I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?"
I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. "I don't know," I said. "Tomorrow.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#10. Love is infinite and limitless, it is eternal and boundless.

Debasish Mridha

#11. After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

Yoko Ono

#12. The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about the U.S. Army. It was absolutely the worst experience of my life, and it was probably the single most valuable experience.

Norman Mailer

#13. There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war' ... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.

Ernst Haeckel

#14. Artful without being pretentious, well-made without being staid, Trey Moody's investigations of our weird and ordinary world are a little off, by which I mean that they're onto something. Read 'em and be crept into.

Graham Foust

#15. I'm a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I'm a tired person.

Jeri Smith-Ready