I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful … servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.
BARBARA WARDBeing in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
More Jr., Sammy Davis Quotes
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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
JOHN BERGER -
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
COLIN POWELL -
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
AI WEIWEI -
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
BARRY BONDS -
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
TOM PETERS -
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
It breaks my heart in half watching your spirit fall. So when the light is fading, can I be the one you call?
J.S BROWN -
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
ROBERT FROST -
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
TORI AMOS -
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
BETH HENLEY -
If my skin is going to crawl, I pray it crawls into safer spaces.
BRIANNA PASTOR -
I’m not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day.
TYLER, THE CREATOR -
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE







