David Walker Abolitionist Famous Quotes & Sayings

The problem with many to-do lists is that when we write down a series of short-term objectives, we are, in effect, allowing our brains to seize on the sense of satisfaction that each task will deliver. We are encouraging our need for closure and our tendency to freeze on a goal without asking if it's the right aim. — Charles Duhigg

A strange fact of life is that usually people who are counted out somehow transform into the action figures doing the toughest of times that people can count on. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. — Peter Jackson

The world progresses! Why shouldn't it turn as well? — Arthur Rimbaud

Most of them even thought of offering him the honour he had declined, for he who in such circumstances refuses a crown, always appears to be the most worthy of it; — Joseph-Francois Michaud

We should be servants of Jesus not masters of people — George O. Wood

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit. — Richard Dawkins

My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy. — Roseanne Barr

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers. — Jimmy Wales

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet. — Maya Rudolph

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels. — William Henry Ashley

I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science. — Brendan Iribe

My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly. — Robert Carlyle

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal. — Deepak Chopra