Uncelebratory Quotes

#1. Social Darwinists of the day were forever on about the joys of bloody teeth and claws, but they were curiously uncelebratory of speed and deception, poison and surprise.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. I'm not a great piano player.

Norah Jones

#4. Hope was all that stood between them and death.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#5. Sometimes you need to fight your demons yet, sometimes you just need to embrace them.

A. Mani

#6. I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

Laura Lippman

#7. My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#8. We all will live much happier when we will learn to love and serve each other.

Debasish Mridha

#9. As long as I stay #undistracted, I can live both His promise as well as his dream.

Bridgett Renay

#10. When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet
it is my other who sits in a ball and cries.
My other beats a tin drum in my heart.
My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep.
My other cries and cries and cries
when I put on a cocktail dress.

Anne Sexton

#11. We must all guard against the human weakness of forming into tribes in order to lift our self-esteem. We can feel good about ourselves without having to find someone else to classify as inferior.

Steve Hogarth

#12. Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Douglas Alexander

#13. I really am not a gold fan.

Dave Ramsey

#14. I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

Ahmed Ben Bella