Bell Hooks Teaching To Transgress Quotes & Sayings

I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and under, and they're still in that intense mother-bonding phase. It might just be that. Because the dads haven't changed. — Jen Kirkman

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers. — Barbara Johnson

The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known. — Megan Whalen Turner

Technically it was FLOTUS's job to extend the invitations, but the idea that Mrs. Clinton would take responsibility for someone under her command? Laughable. I surely never saw it. — Gary J. Byrne

I don't buy comics anymore, for the most part. I eat my lunch off of them. — Jim Lee

. . . the authors had developed indices that could be employed to measure the state of a civilization, to determine if society was healthy, in decline, or perhaps even dead. The indicators keyed in on everything from the accumulation of refuse to declines in everyday civility. They looked at how a society treated its most vulnerable citizens; examined a culture's architecture, gauging its scale in relation to humans and the surrounding natural world. One of the primary indicators, however, was a measure of the ability of a society's citizens to listen to each other and truly hear what was being said. It evaluated by gradations the ability of individuals to stand motionless for prolonged periods, receptive to their surroundings. — Robert H. Lieberman

Whatever our frame of mind, whether ecstasy or depression, David has exactly described our emotions. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy. — Michael Masser

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. — Douglas Coupland

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before. — Jesse Jackson