38737 Quotes

#1. We can be a victim or a creator. One takes negative memories to use as a crutch, remain the same and blame. The latter takes negative memories accepting responsibility for choosing the situation to learn, evolve and change.

Juls Amor

#2. As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.'

David T. Hardy

#3. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

William Shakespeare

#4. Most Westerners today believe in individualism. They believe that every human is an individual, whose worth does not depend on what other people think of him or her.

Yuval Noah Harari

#5. If we really want our students to become wild readers, independent of our support and oversight, sometimes the best thing we can do is get out of the way.

Donalyn Miller

#6. We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

Alexander Lowen

#7. If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.

Lao-Tzu

#8. There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

John Hodgman

#9. I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.

Anne Frank

#10. There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

Mike Leigh

#11. They had a relaxed look about them, appropriate for people going to a peaceful demonstration sanctioned by the authorities.

Naguib Mahfouz

#12. There's simply no way you can tell a woman you work with that you disapprove of her relationship with her adult child, no matter how much you think it would be better for him to move out.

Mallory Ortberg

#13. It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

Andrew Sean Greer

#14. I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

Ziggy Marley

#15. The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.

Sonja Henie