Discotech Quotes & Sayings

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me. — Rick Perlstein

No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave. — Lysander Spooner

If you serve people, they will gladly serve your vision. — Sunday Adelaja

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people. — Marc Almond

A victim of the use of water as a beverage. — Sam Houston

The difference between fear and awe is a matter of our eyes adjusting. — Terry Tempest Williams

If it grieves you," he said, the words caressing my bones, "then I don't think it's absurd at all. — Sarah J. Maas

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull. — Ernie Harwell

Mission matching: an ask that creates synergistic congruence (aka win-win) between missions. — Richie Norton

Corporate humans would be regarded as a cancerous growth on the Earth by nature. — Steven Magee

This does not necessarily mean that the man whose path at this moment crosses mine will be personally endowed with each and all of the marvellous qualities which we are accustomed to attribute to our representations of God, that he will be a perfect image of the divine Majesty, a striking sign of the Presence. But then, what about ourselves, as we look doubtfully at this man? Do we ourselves perfectly mirror the Lord in our bodies, our hearts and minds, our behaviour? What matters in our meeting is not the quality of the image that he and I present of God, still less any reflections upon this quality, but precisely the setting free of that image in his depths as in mine — Henri Le Saux

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence. — Queen Elizabeth II

She doesn't need the pack. She doesn't need me."
I shot to my feet. "That's not true," I said hotly.
He tilted his head a little, his eyes meeting mine. His eyes softened. "I misspoke," he said in a steady voice. "She doesn't need me to make sure she has enough food or a place to live-that is my privilege, but she doesn't need me to do that. She doesn't need me to keep her safe or to make her a whole person. She doesn't need me to do anything except love her. Which I do. — Patricia Briggs

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson