Decenter Quotes & Sayings

Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn. — Nichiren

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you. — Sofia Vergara

But I can't stay here for a week!"
"You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult. — A.A. Milne

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked. — Paul Arden

Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader. — H.L. Mencken

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe. — David Graeber

I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed. — Bill Skarsgard

Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights. — Dale Evans

white people might find that when we decenter our apparent interests, and center Black interests, that all along we were not really centering ourselves but only "whiteness" as a symbol or key to power, wealth, and prestige - mostly for a few white people who despise us only a little less than they do Black people. They are laughing at us. We blame Black "welfare queens" and Mexican "illegal aliens" while the whites who run this country grow richer and richer at our expense. Let's stick up for the most exploited, the most terrorized, and this might wake us up to the terror and exploitation which we also have been experiencing to a lesser degree. — Samantha Foster

Is the destinyu of all who forget God;v so perishes the hope of the godless.w 14What they trust in is fragile1; what they rely on is a spider's web. — Anonymous