Despreciable Yo Quotes & Sayings

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. — Kurt Loder

I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. — William Faulkner

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. — Carter G. Woodson

We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive profits, yet allow pensioners to struggle to stay warm in winter; at CEOs who can earn up to a 1,000 times the salary of their average worker; and soon, any day now, at those politicians who allowed this to happen. — Noreena Hertz

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. — Christopher Hitchens

He conquers who endures. — Persius

The twinkle at the back of his eyes. — Cameron Dokey

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from. — Marc Ribot

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. — Dalai Lama

Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid. — Richard Rohr

Beautiful people never lie. — Rick Riordan

I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude ... Adventure is my guidon. — L. Ron Hubbard

Memory seems as faulty, as misunderstood and misguided, as every other thought or spasm that passes through us. — Amy Bloom

Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses. — Orson Scott Card