They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
BOB GOFFHe described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY -
We need to show the world that Black lives not only matter, but are valued, loved, supported, and celebrated.
JOE BIDEN -
You are not his princess. You are your own queen.
NIKITA GILL -
God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
VERONICA ROTH -
I don’t think we should be engaged in nation-building. It’s not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military’s job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.
TED CRUZ -
Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.
BEN LOORY -
The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.
BRANDON BOYD -
Solving human problems start with empathy.
ANKUR SINGH -
I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.
DENNIS RODMAN -
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
TERESA OF AVILA -
The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in fact are often trampled down by humans.
BLAKE BUTLER -
Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that – because I wasn’t prepared to be controlled.
BILLY CHILDISH -
Obviously, you’re known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You’re a person a lot longer before and after you’re a professional athlete.
DEREK JETER -
Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.
BARRY HUGHART