Lerone Bennett Quotes

#1. Also her perfume, which mingled with the crisp air off the lake below, creating an intoxicating mixture of damp earth and leaves and water and girl. Not woman, in Sully's opinion. Girl.

Richard Russo

#2. An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

Lerone Bennett Jr.

#3. The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Jurgen Habermas

#4. What are you doing to me?"

He chuckled against my skin as he kissed my shoulder. "Making damn sure I"m your biggest weakness.

Steph Nuss

#5. Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.

Lerone Bennett Jr.

#6. Behind my smile is a hurting heart.
Behind my laugh, I'm falling apart.
Look closely at me and you will see,
the girl I am
...isn't me

Unknown

#7. At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.

David Foster Wallace

#8. I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat ...

John Geddes

#9. the trail, and returned home as he had left, stealthily, like an Indian.

Zane Grey

#10. I want a hairy little Jewish Princess with a brand new nose, who knows where it goes.

Frank Zappa

#11. I love Christmas! I'm not religious, but I love the trappings of the season. I love the decorations, and the music, and Santa, and the festive food, and the cinnamon- and vanilla-infused aromas.

Jane Cleland

#12. No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

Arthur Helps