Dresel Velasquez Quotes & Sayings

Our conceptual maps tend to lack a way to conceive the immanence of violence and power in the ideals and practices that have become dominant in the Western tradition. Mass death has tended to be conceived as something accidental, something outside the ordinary run of events. I think the difficulty in coming to terms with the peculiarities of the Western will to power has to do with the absence of a central metaphor capable of describing the link between consumption and death. The consumptive mentality has in many respects been normalized, as has the violence that underpins and is the effect of systems of universal judgment. Certainly the aestheticization of difference is coextensive with the romance with violence that has become so characteristic of contemporary Western society. — Deborah Root

One has periods of ghastliness. And then long periods of sort of quiet and love. — Philip Roth

There is only one person in the State Department that can sign off on State Department personnel being in a facility that doesn't meet security standards, and it's the secretary of state. — James Lankford

Who or what takes priority over God in our lives? — Leonard Ravenhill

Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam. — Stephen Kinzer

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things. — Amber Le Bon

Dude, could you please get off my girlfriend before I beat the crap out of you ? I don't want to injure her. — Stacey Wallace Benefiel

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane. — Jay-Z