Class Is Permanent Quotes

#1. In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

Henry Louis Gates

#2. It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.

Jim Webb

#3. Perhaps most strikingly of all, it was clear in 1988 that those inside the process had congealed into a permanent political class, the defining characteristic of which was its readiness to abandon those not inside the process.

Joan Didion

#4. Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.

Jean Thompson

#6. She always wears her sunglasses, even when it rains.

Anne Berest

#7. Smart people only mated with smart people, class structures would ossify. There'd be a permanent underclass of stupid people.

Adelle Waldman

#8. There are days we all live with defensive thoughts in our mind. Without losing these thoughts we can't totally be ourselves, and enjoy life's freedom of the heart.

Ron Baratono

#9. It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.

Victoria Osteen

#10. We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

Barbara Boxer

#11. I'm not a late-night person. After 10 P.M., I'm falling asleep. If I'm out at that time, I'll be the one falling asleep at dinner.

Blake Mycoskie

#12. Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.

Mark Leibovich

#13. Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.

Mervyn Peake

#14. Smile like a flower; appreciate to empower.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Any way you cut it, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Or, more accurately, between a fang and a sharp place.

Jeaniene Frost

#16. The brightest stars don't necessarily give the most light.

Marty Rubin

#17. A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive.

Robert Reich

#18. I choose to believe God rather than my feelings. I choose to believe I am acceptable even though I feel unacceptable.

Emily P. Freeman

#19. All souls burn, some give light.

Patricia Storace

#20. To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Nathaniel Branden

#21. All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

George Wald

#22. Listen if you want to be heard

John Wooden

#23. Well what? said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don't know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away.

Brian McGreevy

#24. We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

Jim DeMint

#25. A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

Robert Shea