Devonda Walker Quotes & Sayings

I hate the term 'black' because it doesn't bring to life who we are as a people. The term 'black' has more negative synonyms than the term white. — Isaiah Washington

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for. — Joel Salatin

Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college. — Jeffrey Eugenides

We weren't going anywhere, Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated. — Neal Shusterman

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it. — Stefan Zweig

You can do a lot more good with money than without it. — Mark Victor Hansen

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies. — Nick Denton

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. — Ninon De L'Enclos

At one time, we all were Gods. — Bjorn Street

For me, starting each collection is always about what I really want, what I really need, and I was personally dying for sensual comfort. I think when you think of Donna Karan, you think of sensuality, but it's a different kind of sensuality. A kind of comfort sensuality that is one with your body and the way clothes feel on. — Donna Karan

We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more important than the democracy it declares. — G.K. Chesterton

Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But the important thing to remember is that, once they happen, clean energy victories are irreversible. No one will tear down wind farms because they are nostalgic for fracking in our watersheds. And nobody will pull down their solar panels because they miss having mercury in their tuna or asthma inhalers for their kids. Because once we leave fossil fuels behind, we are never going back. — Michael Brune

It's just that I don't believe in living a life in decline. Either one grows, one blooms, or one diminishes. I wasn't able to imagine any way after witnessing the white nights to continue to live while growing. And since I refuse to live and diminish, I wanted to die. — Roman Payne

In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul. — Robert Morneau