Literate Girl Quotes

#1. There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.

Celeste De Blasis

#2. The last of her children, whom she barely glanced at when he was born because it wasn't worth the trouble to try to learn features you would never see change into adulthood anyway.

Toni Morrison

#3. I have only one question, my sister and my friend," she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply into the shadowed eyes that met hers. "And that is this; which way do you want them sliced - lengthwise, or widthwise?

Mercedes Lackey

#4. Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Hannah Arendt

#5. We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'

Bjorn Lomborg

#6. It is not a matter of how much you train, but of how you train. - RICK NILES, TRIATHLON COACH

Joe Friel

#7. You leave that life out there," he said, motioning to the street. "You cross the threshold of your home and that's it. Don't bring any of that into your home. Ever.

Frank Lucas

#8. Without awareness, we are not truly alive.

James F.T. Bugental

#9. Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this.

King Hussein I

#10. Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.

Rush Limbaugh

#11. Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the deepest satisfaction we will ever know. How terrible for children who are being brought up without that capacity.

Sue Gerhardt

#12. Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

Miguel De Unamuno

#13. I guess my work is described a lot of the time as very sensual and sexy. When I take a picture, I'm very focused on trying to discover something about a person. Or about an idea. I try to be quite successful at it.

Mario Sorrenti