16he Black Quotes & Sayings

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved. — Franz Beckenbauer

I wasn't entitled to pray for God to do his job, because it wasn't his job to make things easy for me. — C.D. Reiss

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots. — Michelle Dockery

I glance down his body. He's still wearing his shorts and his shirt, and I still have my T-shirt on. Jeez
talk about wham, bam, thank you ma'am. — E.L. James

In fact, not only have a good many formerly abused children grown into nonabusing adults, but a number of these parents have great difficulty with even modest, nonphysical methods of disciplining their children. In rebellion against the pain of their own childhoods, these parents shy away both from setting limits and from enforcing them. This, too, can have a negative impact on a child's development, because children need the security of boundaries. But — Susan Forward

Trust that you can get back up and not give in. Ever. — Patrick Willis

If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight? — Eduardo Galeano

Sometimes the price of doing the right thing is higher than we realize when we do it. — Rachel Aaron

This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. — Victor Hugo

Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on. — Carl Sandburg

A witch is wise. She has earned her wisdom. She has learned to love her shadows and has grown more beautiful because of it. She has proven she can stand comfortably within her powers. She has become the true embodiment of a witch. — Dacha Avelin

How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us. — John Newton