#saul

Saul tapped his wife's obstinate chin. "Mrs. Benedict, you certainly are. You promised to obey." "That was thirty years ago! Before the wedding ceremony caught up with the modern age." "Well, I for one am holding you to that. Gondola for two, in the moonlight, with champagne and roses. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#crystal #gondola #karla #saul #seeking-crystal

She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#pain #rape #sad #sadness #sexual-assault

Don't castrate, But educate, At least to masturbate! ↗

— Himmilicious

#sex-education #sexual-assault #social-sarcasm #education

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#equality #fact #humiliation #merely #nonsense

Assaults against women and children are assaults against any potential positive future for the world. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#assault #future-generations #gender-equality #equality

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#because #big #big brother #brother #case

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. ↗

— Paul Begala

#against #assaults #attacks #blind #blind eye

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#about #after #ago #assault #began

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#american values #assaults #brink #constitution #declaration

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#head #hitting #lead #leadership #over