Sue Townsend (1946–2014) English writer and humorist
Source: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
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“Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me”
Chuck Klosterman book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989) American political and social activist
Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980), p. 297.
Context: There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
Hans Küng (1928) Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author
"If Obama were Pope" (31 January 2009) http://www.progressiveinvolvement.com/progressive_involvement/2009/01/if-obama-were-pope-by-professor-hans-kung.html <br class="br">Context: The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He is absolute head of government, legislator and supreme judge in the church. If he wanted to, he could authorize contraception over night, permit the marriage of priests, make possible the ordination of women and allow eucharistic fellowship with this Protestant churches. What would a Pope do who acted in the spirit of Obama?
“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
“Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
Shashi Tharoor (1956) Indian politician, diplomat, author
"The Shashi Tharoor column: The creation of India," 2001
“I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”
Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“Animals that kill usually have far more social relationships than those they prey upon.”
Gilles Dauvé (1947) French writer
"Letter on Animal Liberation" (1999)
“Badly off as the men… were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.”
Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) American author and socialist
Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/lkbak10.txt (1888), Ch. 11.
“Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
http://books.google.com/books?id=3sq6RaxZt3cC&pg=PA107&dq=%22no+better+teacher+after+the+apostles+than+st.+augustine%22&lr=&sig=r-kmHoDO6R6wwIs7krbtAS7Jv7E <br class="br">Luther's Works, American Ed., Robert H. Fischer, Helmut T. Lehman, eds., Concordia Publishing House/Fortress Press, 1959, ISBN 0800603370 (Word and Sacrament III), vol. 37:107