short quotes about sisters

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt. ~Dennis Miller



Truth is not determined by majority vote. ~Doug Gwyn



Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ~Cyril Connolly



Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. ~Erma Bombeck



When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. ~Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy



We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice. ~John Dewey



More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. ~Charles Francis Adams



When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. ~Elliot Chaze



Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. ~John Lancaster Spalding



Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion



I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. ~James Conrad



You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... ~Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, "Birds - And a Caution" (Thanks, Corinne)



You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ~Walt Schmidt



Labor gives birth to ideas. ~Jim Rohn



Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz



My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. ~Rita Mae Brown



If only cats grew into kittens. ~R. Stern