Spuriously High Quotes

#1. Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

Matteo Renzi

#2. Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

Gregory Maguire

#3. To stay callm, I wondered to myself, Does he have regular handcuffs, or does he have special SeaWorld handcuffs? Like, are they shaped like two curved dolphins coming together?

John Green

#4. I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Ben Affleck

#5. I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.

Patina Miller

#6. Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.

Sandra Bernhard

#7. They were so intimate and utterly out of touch.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. My life
has appeared unclothed in court,
detail by detail,
death-bone witness by death-bone witness,
and I was shamed at the verdict ...

Anne Sexton

#9. If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

Robert Breault

#10. I'm worried about your lack of security, not your lack of nookie.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#11. Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

Sophie Kinsella