"once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Confidence Quotes #Night Quotes #Men Quotes

“There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it”
“So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.”
“I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.”
“What you're saying is often less important than what you're feeling when you're saying it.”
“Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...”
“Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.”
“We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.”
“In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.”

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