Quotes for All
The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it to her list of useful skills she needed to acquire along with hand-to-hand combat and the recipe for pesto. If her life were to continue on its present track which after 26 years … Read more
Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it’s because youths don’t have jobs. Or you might say that’s because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, … Read more
Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. … We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy. Eve Ensler
I just like short hair on women, I think it’s cool. And I have wanted to cut my hair for very many years, but being on contract with a television show for six years prevents you from doing that, and then being on contract with a cosmetic endorsement campaign prevents you from doing that again. … Read more
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it’s possible … to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe. Euripides
We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick. Erykah Badu
When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and … Read more
The Loneliness One dare not sound — And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size — The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see — And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny — The Horror not to be surveyed — But skirted in the … Read more
I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It’s an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet. Elizabeth Warren
By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It’s big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors! Elizabeth Janeway