Dominiquie Vandenberg Quotes & Sayings

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men. — Theodore Parker

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They're operated as holding pens - miniature jails, really. It's only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated. — Barack Obama

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again ... — Laini Taylor

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. — William Shakespeare

Photographers, like few other kinds of artists I can imagine, have an insanely
personal relationship with their gear. — David DuChemin

Not everyone can be equally right, Harry." "But believe you me, everyone can be equally wrong," I said. — Jim Butcher

I wasn't wondering whether you had a lip fungus, but thank you for getting that awkward conversation out of the way. — Penny Reid

This diary will tell the real life story of my great-grandmother Yasutani Jiko. She was a nun and a novelist and New Woman7 of the Taisho era.8 She was also an anarchist and a feminist who had plenty of lovers, both males and females, but she was never kinky or nasty. And even though I may end up mentioning some of her love affairs, everything I write will be historically true and empowering to women, and not a lot of foolish geisha crap. So if kinky nasty things are your pleasure, please close this book and give it to your wife or co-worker and save yourself a lot of time and trouble. 4. — Ruth Ozeki

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling. — Eric Schneiderman

We should not treat people as they treat us, we should treat them better. — Tariq Ramadan

It's scary when it's real. When it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants. — Jenny Han

Well, you could have knocked me sideways with a feather. — Sally Gardner

I'll call you. Take care." And he was gone. So the rain comes down hard outside my room, and like Eddie Cohen," I say, "... fifteen thousand years - - - of what? We're still nothing but animals. — Sylvia Plath

My acts are irrevocable
Because they have no essence ...
Where are the doers of deeds
Absent among their conditions?
Imagine a magician
Who creates a creature
Who creates other creatures.
Acts I perform are creatures
Who create others. — Akkineni Nagarjuna

For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life. — Juliana Hatfield