Quash Quotes

#1. The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts.

Jessica Valenti

#2. In what appears to have been an unplanned quip, Wilberforce asked Huxley if he thought he was descended from an ape on his father's or mother's side. Huxley retorted that he would rather have simian relatives than claim kinship with a man who used his charisma and authority to quash free debate.

Jonathan Clements

#3. At issue here is a basic law which enables the Supreme Court to quash laws in extreme cases. Up until now, this right of the Supreme Court was not mentioned anywhere, but was just taken. At the same time, we want to enable the Knesset to overrule decisions of the Supreme Court.

Ayelet Shaked

#4. She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: 'Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.

Edward Rutherfurd

#5. While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

Andy Stanley

#6. I don't know what it is about Ackbar that tends to quash arguments. He has a kind of moist charisma, I guess, that no one wants to challenge. I know I don't want to dispute him, anyway.

Kevin Hearne

#7. I tried to quash my anger and fear. If I was being set up to fail, then I would fail spectacularly.

Fran Wilde

#8. I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I'm disgusting. I can't play any more. I went to bed with Dudek and all his Liverpool team-mates.

Andrea Pirlo

#9. I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

Maxwell Perkins

#10. When I came to the industry, many directors like Krishna Vamsi and Puri Jagannath had encouraged me a lot. Krishna Vamsi is my mentor, and I admire him. That's why I give chances to new directors.

Ravi Teja

#11. It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives.

Scott Speedman

#12. Real life can be hard, and when you get whisked away into a beautiful story - everything else disappears.

Loretta Lost

#13. Some things don't cange no mattered what's happened. even things that fade with time and distance aren't really ever lost.

Gennifer Albin

#14. Nobody ever oohs and aahs over wiring conduits and sewer lines.

Ian Tregillis

#15. A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

William Faulkner

#16. For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

Barack Obama

#17. We live first and find reasons later.

Marty Rubin

#18. I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.

Michael Haneke

#19. An external attribution exists to make you feel less shitty. It's a handy tool, wherein you perceive anything positive that happens to you as a mistake, subjective, and/or never a result of your own goodness. Negative things, alternately, are the objective truth. And they're always your fault.

Melissa Broder