Mosuo Quotes

#1. What if we didn't all grow up hearing that true love is obsessive and possessive? What if, like the Mosuo, we revered the dignity and autonomy of those we loved? What if, in other words, sex, love, and economic security were as available to us as they were to our ancestors?

Christopher Ryan

#2. Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here.

Nostradamus

#3. I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.

Sylvia Earle

#4. [Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

Adam Carolla

#5. My colleague and I are journalists ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption is a necessary and time-honored concomitant of any functioning government, which we support wholeheartedly.

Michael Swanwick

#6. To distract myself, I thought about all the cusswords I knew and arranged them in alphabetical order.

Sue Grafton

#7. No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next
if not a damn sight better.

Edward Abbey

#8. It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)

Robin McKinley

#9. Since he's the leader of the gang, he gets to say what the

Lenore Look

#10. In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what's going to happen. But knowing what happens isn't the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.

Emery Lord

#11. As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.

Nelson Mandela