“It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.” PainChoicesMy OwnPartyMembersAttemptingContraceptionWomen's Health Author:Linda Lingle
“By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual” IfsPainEvilIndividualCommunityPleasurePartyCasesObjectsProduceParticularBenefitsHappeningsAdvantagePropertyUnhappinessUtilityMischief Book:The Principles of Morals and Legislation Source: The Principles of Morals and Legislation
“Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.” PeopleUseFeelingsPainLastsPartyEmotionModernDeeperDivorceLawyerVersionsReleaseTortureScarPrimitiveWoundedMedievalClawsModern SocietyDivorce Lawyers Book:Up Till Now Source: Up Till Now
“Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.” GivingSoulPainSpiritHouseSocialAbilityPartyCareersPlansGayElementsInfiniteHeavyAtomsSaltRidingAmusementStirringPicnicsBanquetsAiryCharadesCoquette Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.” PeopleIfsGivingEarthPainLiteratureResultsPartySecretMagicDestructionCourtLiberationMarvelousWrathReproachLumpsFamily FriendsDisapproval Author:Michael Chabon