Quotes About 258

#1. PRO Reclaiming Abortion Rights By Katha Pollitt 258 pp. Picador. $25.

Anonymous

#2. Right. Vampires. But how do they get inside?"
"They fly" ...
"We dont fly," Clary felt impelled to point out.
"No," Jace agreed. "We dont fly. We break and enter." ...
"Flying sounds like more fun."
-Clary & Jace, pg.258-

Cassandra Clare

#3. The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable ... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)

Wendell Berry

#4. What if Sam's heart got broken again? As with most kids who are fourteen, it has been spackled and duct-taped and caulked back together many times as it is. [p. 258]

Anne Lamott

#5. The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

Rita Rudner

#6. It was a feeling with nowhere to go. Was that what love was, and how it came to you
leaving you no options for its use?

John Irving

#7. But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.

J.L. Austin

#8. It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary.

Chanakya

#9. Being a pumpkinhead is great."
"Your HEAD is a PUMPKIN.

Justin Robinson

#10. I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.

Cal Thomas

#11. Great idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police.

Ava Gardner

#12. Raffe looks like someone just broke his heart.

Susan Ee

#13. When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

Saint Augustine

#14. Life is composed of different inventions.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#15. You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

Al Yankovic

#16. They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.

Ernest Hemingway,

#17. This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

Hugh Laurie

#18. In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.

Rebecca Solnit

#19. I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

Mary Shelley

#20. Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

Frank Zappa

#21. Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Claude McKay