Vaginula Quotes

#1. I think you've been sleeping on the job; the city isn't exactly paradise," she said caustically. "Every time you clap your hands, another person becoms a statistic.

Carol Oates

#2. For me ... it's the only life
That I've ever known
And love is only one ...
Fine star ... away
Even though the living
Is sometimes laced with lies ...
It's alright ...
The feeling remains
Even after the glitter fades

Stevie Nicks

#3. I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.

Michel Faber

#4. The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.

Homer Hickam

#5. In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. When you put pain in perspective" - she pauses to find the right words to articulate the sentiment - "it isn't that we experience it in the moment. It's that we are always going to have it, always going to carry it with us. It's the weight we carry with aging.

Paul Michael Peters

#7. What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. Depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer.

William Styron

#9. As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

Gerald Brenan

#10. I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. ( ... ) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others. (p. 257).

Elif Shafak

#11. It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.

Colin Camerer

#12. I say that I hate you, but deep inside I love you. Love is in my mind, in my soul, and deep in my heart. As it always has been. As it always might be.

J.C. Reed

#13. Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Charles De Gaulle

#14. We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

John Glenn

#15. I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.

Denis Leary