Darity Duke Quotes & Sayings

Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly. — Jean Liedloff

The way to finish the book is to turn down the volume on the stuff that's all about how other people react. — David Lipsky

When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras. — Serena Williams

It' her life, and she' in the middle of it. — Esmeralda Santiago

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch. — Tug McGraw

This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it. — Jacqueline Woodson

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up. — Jack Canfield

The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome. — Robert Jay Lifton

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries. — Clint Eastwood

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush. — Mark Shields

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it? — Kanye West

The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin. — George R R Martin