Duroy Jacket Quotes & Sayings

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in. — James Cromwell

Very well, I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but ... two and two make five is also a very fine thing too. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat. — Djimon Hounsou

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day. — Neil Kinnock

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me. — Mahalia Jackson

Haters scream, trying to bring me down, but my Beliebers can scream louder than that and I am proud of that. — Justin Bieber

The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can't reach, the parts that connect the child to the adult and the brain to the heart and reality to dreams. Stories, at their essence, are enemies of snobbery. And a book snob is the enemy of the book. — Matt Haig

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

If we think we have twenty-four hours to achieve a certain purpose, today will become a means to attain an end. The moment of chopping wood and carrying water is the moment of happiness. We do not need to wait for these chores to be done to be happy. To have happiness in this moment is the spirit of aimlessness. Otherwise, we will run in circles for the rest of our life. We have everything we need to make the present moment the happiest in our life, even if we have a cold or a headache. We don't have to wait until we get over our cold to be happy. Having a cold is a part of life. — Thich Nhat Hanh