Costumi Da Quotes & Sayings

The police did not like to come to neighborhoods like this one, where the best they could hope for was hostile indifference. — Jeff Lindsay

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us. — Charlie Gonzalez

What is most difficult to face, but increasingly obvious as gay visibility provokes containment, but not equality, is that homophobes enjoy feeling superior, rely on the pleasure of enacting their superiority, and go out of their way to resist change that would deflate their sense of supremacy. Homophobia makes heterosexuals feel better about themselves. It's not fear - it's fun.
We know from photographs of happy picnicking white families laughing underneath the swinging body of a tortured, lynched black man, or giggly white U.S. soldiers leading naked Iraqis on leashes, or terrified humiliated Jews surrounded by laughing smiling Nazis that human beings love being cruel. They enjoy the power, and go far beyond social expectation to carry out the kind of cruelty that makes them feel bigger. In short, homophobia is not a phobia at all. It is a pleasure system. — Sarah Schulman

The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously not desperate and poor refugee dwellers. They were middle class, educated enough to speak English, to be able to go to flight school, to come to America, to live in Florida. — Edward Said

What I've done in the game is always going to stick, no matter what happens. — Pete Sampras

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her. — Sue Townsend

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist. — Bashar Al-Assad

Those who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all. — Harlan Coben

It was a good picture. You could tell by the amount of time I spent staring at it. — Cary Attwell