Borgella Joanne Quotes & Sayings

There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America ... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere. — Edward Ball

I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them. — Colin Marston

And sometimes we finally grow wise enough to understand life is a gift that can't- shouldn't- last forever. — Jodi Meadows

I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it. — Andre Dubus III

But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming. — Rene Descartes

You not nothing til you got something, then everybody love ya. Pops told me that — Webbie

We can't control what happens around us but we can control what happens inside us. Walk in positive energy...live in peace. — Timothy Pina

He didn't deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given. — V.S. Carnes

What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank. — Susan Cain

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. — Ambrose Bierce