Argenal Evelyn Quotes & Sayings

The facts of my native world, I came to understand that my country was a galaxy, and this galaxy stretched from the pandemonium of West Baltimore to the happy hunting grounds of Mr. Belvedere. I obsessed over the distance between that other sector of space and my own. I knew that my portion of the American galaxy, where bodies were enslaved by a tenacious gravity, was black and that the other, liberated portion was not. I knew that some inscrutable energy preserved the breach. I felt, but did not yet understand, the relation between that other world and me. And I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a profound cruelty, which infused an abiding, irrepressible desire to unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal. — Edward St. Aubyn

And you would be docile strung up by your ankles," Tobias said smoothly. "One stroke. Now try again. — Chris Owen

How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life. — Dean Koontz

I have always been independent. — Mo Yan

Sasha told me you were looking for engagement rings. Do you have a specific style in mind?
Yeah the kind that fits on her hand and makes her say yes when I propose — J. Sterling

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. — Mercy Otis Warren

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday. — Pete Townshend

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. — Mary Schmich