#pal

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#breadth #captive #development #fences #get

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent. ↗

— Tug McGraw

#between #ears #elbow #i #inches

When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase. ↗

— Chris Morris

#appalled #catch #catch phrase #hate #hated

The truth is that all this was just part of the suicide process. Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time. Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. If a tress falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn’t it just lie there and rot? And if Christ had died from a barbiturate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would He be in Heaven This wasn’t a question of whether I was going to kill myself. This, this effort, this money and time, the writing team, the drugs, the diet, the agent, the flights of stairs going up to nowhere, all this was so I could off myself with everyone’s full attention. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#survivor #diet

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#choke #dreams #education #intelligence #lethargy

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#episcopal #go #i #matthews #pacific

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then. ↗

— James Young

#be true #fact #feeling #go #i

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. ↗

— Laura Bush

#palestine-public-library #quote #texas #age

All my grandfather ever wanted to do was wake up at dawn and watch my grandmother kneel and pray in a village hidden between Jaffa and Haifa my mother was born under an olive tree on a soil they say is no longer mine but I will cross their barriers, their check points their damn apartheid walls and return to my homeland I am an Arab woman of color and we come in all shades of anger ↗

— Rafeef Ziadah

#anger

I am an Arab woman of color Beware … Beware my anger ! ↗

— Rafeef Ziadah

#anger