Backfield In Motion Quotes & Sayings

I think, if people actually read Calvin, rather than read Max Weber, he would be rebranded. He is a very respectable thinker. And one of the crucial things he brings to me, is that the encounter with another being is an ... occasion in which you can, to the best of your ability, honour the other person as being someone sent to you by God. — Marilynne Robinson

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. — Soren Kierkegaard

When I'm feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller. — Dolly Parton

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. — Assata Shakur

Well, I lost my virginity in a car. But it wasn't a very nice one. — Brittany Murphy

How can they whip cheese? — Arthur Miller

I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I've ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling stories. — Gabriel Iglesias

Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love ... When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible. — Krishna Das

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people. — Napoleon Hill

I looked away. That wasn't something I could promise. I weighed Maxon and Aspen in my heart over and over, and neither of them ever had a true edge. Except, maybe, when I was alone with one of them. Because, at that moment, I was tempted to promise Maxon that I would be there for him in the end. — Kiera Cass

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help. — Don Piper

'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar. — Kathe Koja