519 quotes found
“Believe me, Nóra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best”
“That’s why I wanted to be a writer - because someone I loved told me I could be one.”
“To be likeable as a woman, it seems, you have to ensure that you’re also non-threatening and slightly useless.”
“Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on...”
“Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.”
“Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.”
“It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.”
“Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that re...”
“These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man—of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of ...”
“It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better tha...”
“Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and app...”
“Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”
“Love and lust aren’t always in sync. You can love someone, but not beready to have sex with them. Or you can meet someone random and end up jumping in all the way. There’s nothing wrong with either...”
“I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More”
“The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal...”
“The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, ‘natural’ ruin is ultimately the fact of natality, in which the faculty of action is ontologically rooted. It is, in o...”
“like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.”
“Nobody is wired wrong because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.”
“I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.”
“I cried because sometimes no matter what you try to hide behind— letters or texts or emails or a busy schedule— life still finds a way to barrel through all the distractions. And life still hurts. ...”
