Poussaint Quotes

#1. King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically...

S. Nassir Ghaemi

#2. Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

Gail Carson Levine

#3. ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Lasse Hallstrom

#4. Some rebels are made, not born

Rosalyn Eves

#5. I like to dress up.

Jenna Marbles

#6. Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They're epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity.

Virginia Heffernan

#8. I like to think I'm un-categorisable.

Ang Lee

#9. Heaven has no idea its Queen is on the edge of suicide.

C.J. Anderson

#10. I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#11. Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.

Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia

#12. In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

Alvin Francis Poussaint

#13. My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

John Cage

#14. It's really been a long-term dream of mine to have an alternative to wood-based paper. Over half of the trees cut in the world are cut for paper products.

Woody Harrelson

#15. Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

Jack Levin

#16. Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

Alvin Francis Poussaint