“I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard.” KnowsWorldShouldMatterBodyWould BePoorHeardCostShould HaveNo Matter WhatScreamContraceptionStrikeouts Author:Margaret Sanger
“Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.” WarHomePresidentPlansHeardCostDollarsDemocratIraqBillionsBombsPresident BushOhio Author:Jay Leno
“I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.” MenTalkingHeardCostPaidComplexesCuresCopTrafficPsychologistInferiorityInferiority ComplexTalking Back Author:Shelley Berman
“I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any time the person involved pretends that there's not a cost to the choice, one way or the other; whether you get it or don't get it, there's a cost. That's just basic responsibility, to admit that there's a cost. And the bad karma is when you pretend that the thing is free.” WayPersonsChoicesResponsibilityTalkingTeacherHeardInvolvedCostKarmaOne WayAbortionOne TimeBad Karma Author:George Saunders
“The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.” ShowsBehindsSunHeardDangerousWindCostLeavingDisasterDirtyFuelMassiveFarmsSpillsSlickWind Farms Author:Van Jones
“I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.” IfsWayGivingMeanSaidRealMotherHeardCostGiving UpDespiteMy SisterOur LoveRisenSister Love Book:The Love We Share Without Knowing Source: The Love We Share Without Knowing
“Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.” IfsWorldWellsHeartLittlesSelfPainSufferingSongDiesCan DoWonderfulHeardDyingCostSingingBirdConvincedOutcomesBreastsLegendsScreamDeniedSelf KnowledgeWorth ItThornsCeltic Book:The Thorn Birds Source: The Thorn Birds