Unconvertible Facet Quotes

#1. Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.

Trudi Canavan

#2. For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. There is a way of loving not attached to what is loved.
Observe how water is with the ground,
always moving toward the ocean,
though the ground tries to hold water's foot
and not let it go.

Rumi

#4. I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.

Norma McCorvey

#5. My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.

Ben Folds

#6. Lay out your options, dismiss the ones that are of zero appeal, and focus on those that not only excite you, but make sense to you.

Lauren Lola

#7. Groynes divided the mostly sandy beach into neat compartments.

Ian Rankin

#8. Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#9. Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

Oliver Cromwell

#10. When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

W.H. Davies

#11. People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.

Maya Angelou

#12. (optimisme itself was a word that first entered the French language in the eighteenth century).

Kenan Malik

#13. He's got this way of smiling that makes me want to throw him down and kiss him. And yeah, I know that any guy I have to throw down to kiss probably isn't Mr. Right. Still. I can dream.

Cath Crowley