Velours Quotes

#1. Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Aeschylus

#2. They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.

Richard Yates

#3. It's hard to carry a weight of news with none to tell and days ahead before you can release it. Good news weighs just as heavy as bad.

Mark Lawrence

#4. I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#5. There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.

Virginia Aird

#6. She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it.

William Dean Howells

#7. Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. Why were things funny? Was God laughing at us? Or was laughter the dispensation of God? Maybe laughter itself was Godlike. When we laugh, we rise above pain. We rise above indignity. We even rise above incredulity. We "get it." Maybe in the way God "gets it.

Richard Tillotson

#9. Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.

Solange Knowles

#10. Thank God for Heaven! - That's where everything will get straightened out and made right!

David Berg

#11. You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Peggy Noonan

#12. Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

L. Ron Hubbard

#13. How does the cosmos create? That's not just any question, it's 'the' question. It's the God Problem.

Howard Bloom

#14. Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.

Leila Sales