Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Butler

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?

Marguerite Duras

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

John D. MacDonald

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

Audre Lorde

The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .

Adrienne Rich

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

Asif Ali Zardari

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Robert D. Hare

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Ryan Ross

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Roberto Bolano

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

Felix Kulov

In many prisons the staff have returned to work,

Friedrich Durrenmatt

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

Epictetus

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Nelson Mandela

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Marian Wright Edelman

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Ovid

A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

Jane Austen

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

Rod McKuen

Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness

James D. Watson

I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.

Alice Jacobs

We must reverse this trend. Medical research plays a vital role in the discovery of treatments and cures for heart disease and stroke. It has yielded the medical breakthroughs we now take for granted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In love, the quickest is always the best cure.

H. L. Mencken

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

George Dennison Prentice

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.