Proportioning Valve Quotes

#1. I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson.

James Knowles III

#2. One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

Alice Walker

#3. Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.

Dan Millman

#4. If one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. Do not chase happiness. Instead, define success for yourself; then go out and live it. Be unapologetic in your commitment and honorable in your behavior. When you live in this manner, happiness chases you.

Steve Maraboli

#6. [ ... ] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear.

Jodi Picoult

#7. I love you. I've loved you from the beginning. And I will love you long after the last stars dies. I will love you until the end of darkness itself.

Laura Thalassa

#8. NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

Joanna Lumley

#9. I think we're dating now" "Come on ... I got you naked. You wore a damn corset. And don't get me started on the sponge bath afterward.

J.R. Ward

#10. Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.

Chris Stapleton

#11. You are the only one of your kind

Sunday Adelaja

#12. She inhaled a deep breath and prayed her mother wouldn't freak out. "I, um, met someone?" Also not exactly true, but she wasn't broaching the whole he's-an-ancientgod-who-came-to-life-through-my-snowman conversation. Not yet anyway. Maybe not ever.

Laura Kaye