Searing Quotes
33 quotes by 32 authors
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You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
— Catharine MacKinnon
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Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always…
— Todd McFarlane
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Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute…
— Patricia J. Williams
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We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing…
— Joko Beck
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Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do…
— E. J. Dionne
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Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well,…
— Raquel Cepeda
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In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities…
— Donna J. Haraway
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Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color…
— Alex Webb
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Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn…
— Rumi
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The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves,…
— Hal Porter
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Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial…
— Aberjhani
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The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing…
— Frederick Lenz
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Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.
— Lou Reed
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Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most…
— Mira Bartok
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You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the…
— Libba Bray
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How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and…
— Dick Francis
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I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it,…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with…
— Vera Nazarian
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How does this whole guardian angel business work? Am I the only person who can see you? I mean, are you invisible to everyone else?"…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Who Wrote These Searing Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 33 Searing Quotes, led by these top contributors: