Afro American Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it. — Lord Kelvin

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot. — Miranda Hart

An intolerable pain pierced him. He was totally lost without her ... estranged from his life utterly, and from the world. This was the world into which he'd been born; the only world he would ever know. Yet nowhere in it did he feel the slightest degree at home. She was his home ... his one sanctuary upon earth ... the only place of safety for him in the whole universe. But he had lost her ... and consequently was doomed to absolute loneliness in an alien, frozen vacancy ... at the mercy of something huge, insensate and merciless as an eclipse ... For a moment his isolation was so agonisingly intense that it seemed impossible to go on living. He longed only to plunge into the black pit of annihilation opening before him. — Anna Kavan

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless ... — Hermann Hesse

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

When man comes to the realization that he is not the "favorite" of God; that he was not specially created, that the universe was not made for his benefit, and that he is subject to the same laws of nature as all other forms of life, then, and not until then, will he understand that he must rely upon himself, and himself alone, for whatever benefits he is to enjoy; and devote his time and energies to helping himself and his fellow men to meet the exigencies of life and to set about to solve the difficult and intricate problems of living.
The recognition of a problem is the first step to its solution - We are not "fallen" angels, nor were we "created" perfect.
On the contrary, we are the product of millions of years of an unpurposed evolution. We are the descendants and inheritors of all the defects of our primitive ancestry - the evolution of the myriad forms of life from the infinitesimal to the mammoth - from the worm to the dinosaur. — Joseph Lewis

In the meantime, it's unfair of me to use my expectations as the standard for their behavior or hold it against them when they don't live up to my hopes. — Lysa TerKeurst

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice. — Elizabeth Bowen

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. — Rose Kennedy

You do not require an invitation to make profits. — Dhirubhai Ambani

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall