Artavia Wilson Quotes & Sayings

... why do men continue to practice in themselves, the absurdities they despise in others?
Thomas Paine, The rights of man: being an answer to Mr Burke's attack on the French Revolution (2nd edn, Philadelphia, 1791), p. 41. — Thomas Paine

People are pretty respectful for the most part. — Leighton Meester

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving. — Dennis Waitley

efforts and character of institutions like these can grow into a way of life when the people involved in them put them at the center of their cultural existence and identity and, as it were, fall into orbit around their rich moral core. — Yuval Levin

If I had bodily functions, I think I would have peed my pants. — Gena Showalter

Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide. — Jessica Bell

When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim. — Dwyane Wade

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton. — John Podesta

I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man? — Zach Braff

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment. — Elbert Hubbard

Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated. — Margaret Sanger

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career. — Eric Cantona

I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments. — John Maynard Keynes

I'm sorry if I made you think I don't trust you."
"You don't. Not yet. And that's okay. Just stop assuming I'm only out to hurt you, or take something you're not willing to give. If you're not interested, all you have to do is say so. I can't say I won't be disappointed, but I'll leave you alone if that's what you want."
"I am interested," she said more boldly than she actually felt. "Please understand, my caution comes from experience. You've already proven you're not like the asshole. I'm glad you came last night. I'm glad you're still here this morning."
"See, I'm not so hard to like," he teased, putting her at ease after the tense moments they'd just shared. — Jennifer Ryan

The historian's task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and live properly. A well organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves. — Tony Judt