"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."

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Karl Kraus

#Literature Quotes #World Quotes #Sexuality Quotes

“The funny thing is that even engineers and techs don't know what a tiny telephone connector is - people call them TT connectors. Engineers used to come by all the time and say, "Why are you called Tiny Telephone?"”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”
“It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.”
“Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.”
“Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'”
“I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.”
“We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.”
“Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”

Source : Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.144, Hachette UK

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