Db50 Quotes & Sayings

I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it's pretty hard to go wrong. — Nolan Ryan

God wastes nothing, so use what He has given you as fuel for your soul's journey. — Sarah Jakes

How impossible, though, to turn one's back on all the horrors in the world; there had to be another way to live. — Edan Lepucki

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone ... everybody needs one. — Chaka Khan

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all. — Nick Cave

We start by working with the monsters in our mind. Then we develop the wisdom and compassion to communicate sanely with the threats and fears of our daily life. — Pema Chodron

I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it. — Charlotte Bronte

It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence. — Jeff Cooper

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language. — Robert Fripp

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf. — Liz Carpenter

I've worked with Method Man and Shaquille O'Neil on multiple occasions. I'd never have thought. It's like, 'Oh, those guys. They're my movie buddies.' — Bobby Moynihan

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough. — Sarah Silverman

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority. — George William Curtis

Geryon was amazed at himself. He saw Herakles just about every day now.
The instant of nature
forming between them drained every drop from the walls of his life
leaving behind just ghosts
rustling like an old map. He had nothing to say to anyone. He felt loose and shiny.
He burned in the presence of his mother
I hardly know you anymore, she said leaning against the doorway of his room.
It had rained suddenly at suppertime,
now sunset was startling drops at the window. Stale peace of old bedtimes
filled the room. Love does not
make me gentle or kind, thought Geryon as he and his mother eyed each other
from opposite shores of the light — Anne Carson

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished. — Hillary Clinton