Black Ghetto Sayings And Quotes & Sayings

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
— Nuala O'Faolain

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. — Anonymous

Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants. — Mirabel Osler

You should dream and dream big. You never know. Your dreams may be the fuel that inspires others to keep moving forward."
Micah Richards — Micah Richards

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be. — Lou Holtz

It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up. — Laura Schlessinger

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people. — Eberhard Weber

She had lived her whole life on shifting quicksand, where reason and the intellect were not to be trusted, where only faith was valid, and blind faith was sacred. She, herself, had enforced mindless conformity to that empty evil. — Terry Goodkind

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection. — Charles Dickens

We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us. — Margaret MacMillan