Desprazer Quotes & Sayings

I could not retreat, as did so many, into the church and its mysteries. My parents rejected all dogmas. We spurned the holidays marketed by the people who wanted to be white. We would not stand for their anthems. We would not kneel before their God. And so I had no sense that any just God was on my side. "The meek shall inherit the earth" meant nothing to me. The meek were battered in West Baltimore, stomped out at Walbrook Junction, bashed up on Park Heights, and raped in the showers of the city jail. My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box. That — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America. — Bernie Sanders

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age. — Esther Meynell

But the law's dream - anyone's dream - would be to turn the clock back and stop the bad thing from happening in the first place. — Ward Farnsworth

Inside every pause lived a contemplation — Eric Jerome Dickey

One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of the land around Chernobyl, the bomb test sites of the Pacific, and areas near the United States' Savannah River nuclear weapons plant of the Second World War. Wild plants and animals do not perceive radiation as dangerous, and any slight reduction it may cause in their lifespans is far less a hazard than is the presence of people and their pets. — James E. Lovelock

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. — Bertrand Russell

I had drawn away into the salt,
myself, a shell
emptied of life. — Hilda Doolittle

I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective. — Florentijn Hofman

Why are you focusing on how different you are from one another, and not on the things that unite us? The — Sebastian Junger

The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it. — Steven D. Levitt