Lola Ridge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  • Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

  • You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

  • I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?

  • The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

  • I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

  • He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.

  • He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

  • Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.

  • If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.