2414nb Quotes & Sayings

I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution. — Barack Obama

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity. — Michel Foucault

When you're asleep, no one asks you to do anything. No one expects anything of you. And you don't have to face any of your troubles. — Stephanie Perkins

Hope is a positive-affirmation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. — Brian Tracy

Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ. — John Berridge

By the time I left to go downtown for supper, I was at the high point just short of where intoxication begins to droop into clumsiness or melancholy; and the minute I was outdoors the streets, in the very beautiful late of afternoon weather, improved, that if it can be improved, with the feeling of being alone for a little while, and with the sharp, tender enjoyment of a city I am ordinarily tired in. — James Agee

You can start chasing your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If beauty is a pillow,
You're a transparent
Pillowcase. — James Josue

Tenacity is the mother of progress. — Valerie M. Hudson