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Saying Quotes (page 339)

Jacques Derrida quote: "Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our..."
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. Jacques Derrida
As an unperfect actor upon the stage. Who with much fear is put besides his part. Or some fierce thing, replete with too much rage. Whose strengths abundance weakens his own heart. So I, for fear of trust, forget to say. The perfect ceremony of love's rite. And in mine own love's strength seem to decay. O'ercharged with burthen of my own love's mighto, let my books be then the eloquence. And dumb presagers of my speaking breast. Who plead for love, and look for recompense. More than that... William Shakespeare
But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful nor noble, and has no desire to become any of these; it is by no means striving to imitate mankind! It is quite impervious to all our aesthetic and moral judgements! It has likewise no impulse to self-preservation or impulses of any kind; neither doe sit know any laws. Let us beware of saying there are laws in... Friedrich Nietzsche
And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real. Paul Krugman
Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels. Jeanette Winterson
When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good. Karl Lagerfeld
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. Edna O'Brien
In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I am on my side, she crouches looking into my face. Soft, soft touches of her paw. I open my eyes, say I don't want to wake. I close my eyes. Cat gently pats my eyelids. Cat licks my nose. Cat starts purring, two inches from my face. Cat, then, as I lie pretending to be asleep, delicately bites my nose. I laugh and sit up. At which she bounds off my bed and streaks downstairs... Doris Lessing
Clive Barker quote: "You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say..."
You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied. Clive Barker
Muriel Spark quote: "It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither..."
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. Muriel Spark
To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong. Suzanne Collins
Alexander Dumas quote: "Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never..."
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy. Alexander Dumas
Jodi Picoult quote: "You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still..."
You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong. Jodi Picoult
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. J. R. R. Tolkien
Song of myself. A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose? Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the... Walt Whitman

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