Color Purple Mary Agnes Quotes & Sayings

Today, valor and courage are hard to find. People are fickle, angry, resentful and selfish. It stops them from having courage and fighting for something larger than oneself. — C. Gockel

I do spend a lot more time away from the U.K., it's important to me that I still feel the beat of the people that have been close to me for a long, long time. It's also important that I have really strong and beautiful relationships which I wish to preserve. That enables me - or challenges me, ultimately - to get a Texas driving license! — Robert Plant

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved. — Albert Camus

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares. — Bodhidharma

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these questions ... It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics ... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be seen on this side of the ocean. — Dmitri Mendeleev

I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries. — Michael Jackson

The air and earth had lived in response to his dreams and desires. ... [E]ven today ... this world belonged to him as much as to any owners of these houses and gardens. — Hermann Hesse