1727 Black Quotes & Sayings

Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person (nor are they incompatible). These are beliefs, of course, that one has intuitively about friendships and family; they become less obvious when caught up in a romantic life that mirrors, magnifies, and perpetuates one's own mercurial emotional life and temperament. It has been with my pleasure, and not-inconsiderable pain, that I have learned about the possibilities of love - its steadiness and its growth - from my husband, the man with whom I had lived for almost a decade. — Kay Redfield Jamison

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was — Samuel Johnson

I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. — Milan Kundera

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in. — Tom Waits

What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I've got some repenting to do. — Tony Campolo

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous. — Tony Hendra

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light. — Michelle Moran

An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. — William Shakespeare

My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory. — Kevin Brownlow

Sometimes Coraline would forget who she was while she was daydreaming that she was exploring the Arctic, or the Amazon rainforest, or darkest Africa, and it was not until someone tapped her on the shoulder or said her name that Coraline would come back from a million miles away with a start, and all in a fraction of a second have to remember who she was, and what her name was, and that she was even there at all. — Neil Gaiman

Don't let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future. — A.D. Posey

Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of the map, but in his harsh, impetuous soul. — Vasily Grossman

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country. — Michel De Montaigne