Anne Braden Quotes

#1. By 1776 the American revolutionaries had defined "despotism" down to the level of taxing tea and quartering soldiers. At

Steven Pinker

#2. It was horrible and senseless, and I now felt the sudden need to drink scotch, brood, and read Edgar Allen Poe or the ending to Hamlet. Maybe I would top it all off with some YouTube videos of drowning kittens while listening to Radiohead.

Penny Reid

#3. Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

Teresa Amabile

#5. If it comes at all, Emerson has cautioned that one's call might not come for years. If it doesn't, he remarks it as only a reflection of the universe's faith in one's abstinence, nothing to move the heart to fret

Frederick Exley

#6. We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life.

Sorin Cerin

#7. Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

Moshe Safdie

#8. Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

Moby