Distingu Quotes & Sayings

There's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity. — Charles Bukowski

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did. — Stanley Clarke

Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they are rich and guilty than if they are poor and innocent. A system that denies the poor the legal help they need, that makes wealth and status more important than culpability, must be changed. Walter's case taught me that fear and anger are a threat to justice; they can infect a community, a state, or a nation and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous. I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us. — Bryan Stevenson

[I]t seems to me that a lot of the stranger ideas people have about medicine derive from an emotional struggle with the very notion of a pharmaceutical industry. Whatever our political leanings, we all feel nervous about profit taking any role in the caring professions, but that feeling has nowhere to go. Big pharma is evil; I would agree with that premise. But because people don't understand exactly how big pharma is evil, their anger gets diverted away from valid criticisms - its role in distorting data, for example, or withholding lifesaving AIDS drugs from the developing world - and channeled into infantile fantasies. "Big pharma is evil," goes the line of reasoning; "therefore homeopathy works and the MMR vaccine causes autism." This is probably not helpful. — Ben Goldacre

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet. — Vanna Bonta

The effect of climate change is not simply to reduce rain during the summer months, but also to increase the number of torrential storms. When the rain falls that hard and fast, it cannot sink into the ground and go down to the aquifers. — Nick Davies

I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British. — Banks

There is great knowledge in separation. — Dew Platt

With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans - fickle and fragile and forgetful. — Lysa TerKeurst

One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world! — R. Kent Hughes

It is never too late to change the way you eat - once you do, your body will thank you with a longer and healthier life. — David H. Murdock

A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar. — L. S. Lowry

Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone? — Felicia Hemans

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear. — Lucy Freeman