Crampton Lighting Quotes & Sayings

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way. — Misty Copeland

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact. — George Orwell

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere. — Harold H. Greene

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp. — Fulton J. Sheen

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it. — Antonio De Mendoza

Do you realize how few ever really understand how fortunate they are in their circumstances? — R.K. Narayan

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things. — Shepard Fairey

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. — Neil Gaiman

You have to be all too basely in love with yourself to write about yourself without shame. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head. — R. Kelly

There are no whys or hows when it comes to the natural order of things. It just is. — Julie Kagawa

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get. — Sylvia Plath

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

SKANK is scribbled in ballpoint pen on my desk. I don't exactly know why my heart starts to thump. It's not like there aren't messages and other handiwork all over this school. Take auditorium seat J-8. I found out during last week's Expectations of Excellence assembly that it's got a faded image of a penis carved on the armrest. No one likes to sit in the Pecker Chair for an assembly. People make fun of you the whole day after that. Ask Rob. — Meg Medina