76244 Quotes & Sayings

In this day and age, especially with all the media and television, social media, and the Internet, we are constantly being compared and comparing ourselves to others' lives and journeys. Keep your eyes on your own road. — Sanaa Lathan

The relation between the white and black races in Africa in many ways resembles the relation between the two sexes.
If the one of the two sexes were told that they did not play any greater part in the life of the other sex than this other sex plays within their own existence, they would be shocked and hurt.
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If they (white people) had been told that they played no more important part in the lives of the Natives than the Natives played in their own lives, they would have been highly indignant and ill at ease.
If you had told the Natives that they played no greater part in the life of the white people than the white people played in their lives, they would never have believed you, but would have laughed at you. Probably in Natives circles, stories are passing about, and being repeated, which prove the all-absorbing interest of the white people in the Kikuyu or Kavirondo, and their complete dependence upon them. — Karen Blixen

Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority. — Timothy Noah

If I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these. — Tim Cook

What was a coincidence, Moody thought, but a stilled moment in a sequence that had yet to be explained? — Eleanor Catton

Paul didn't just see emotions. He saw the need they represented. — Beth Moore

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies. — Pauley Perrette

Family. The greatest loyalty after God in the world. — Sarah Dunant

He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her — John Green

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair. — Lemony Snicket

it is high time we stop using the term "theory" while mentioning Evolution. The term "theory" somehow makes some people think of Evolution as an unproven "hypothesis". Theory of Evolution is an incontrovertible fact of science. It is not a fictitious story like Creationism. It's a hard reality. It is the bed-rock of Biology. Defying evolution means defying one's own existence as a human being. — Abhijit Naskar

Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU! — Leo Buscaglia

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. — Jean Baudrillard

It's easy to get rid of people, Christophe. All you have to do is rely on them. — Lili St. Crow