Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
Joe Moore
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
John Berryman
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
Julianna Baggott
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources. I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran
I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.
Bela Kun
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
Seth MacFarlane
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
Sir Walter Besant
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
John Barton
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Hans A. Bethe
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
Bill Gates
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites.
John Betjeman
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu Bakr
I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
Tecumseh
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.
Cathy Better
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Franz Kafka
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
Aneurin Bevan
They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?
Kelly Osbourne
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.
Chris Kattan
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Arthur Ashe
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
Ryan Reynolds
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin
If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.
William J. Clinton
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.
James Levine
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
James Cash Penney
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