Priscilla Barnes Quotes

#1. As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.

Wendy Davis

#2. The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

Rachel Caine

#3. I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

Cees Nooteboom

#4. Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

Jennifer Granholm

#5. I made it on the bevel.

William Faulkner

#6. The sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Marianne Moore

#7. I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

Ruth St. Denis

#8. As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

John Waters

#9. So this was what it was like not to be me.

Miranda July

#10. The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

Anais Nin

#11. My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself.
The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear.

Hajo Meyer