Prognatious Material Quotes

#1. Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#2. How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does. (Page 58)

Ann Voskamp

#3. I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?

Penny Marshall

#4. On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

Jorge Luis Borges

#5. Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Wallace Stegner

#6. I was a very independent teenager.

Melanie Lynskey

#7. I have to say you don't look anything like a policewoman." Maxia's perfect eyebrows arched as she gave Eve's dress a quick scan. "Leonardo dresses you, doesn't he?"
"No, I usually do it myself.

J.D. Robb

#8. I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

Hume Cronyn

#9. Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there's a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the media will show the firefight even though the school is way more important and will affect the community for much longer.

Sebastian Junger

#10. Don't stop trying newer challenges. What you fear you must face!

Avijeet Das

#11. For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#12. So as through a glass, and darkly - The age long strife I see - Where I fought in many guises, - Many names, but always me.

George S. Patton