Encima Quotes & Sayings

A dread of white people now came to live permanently in my feelings and imagination. As the war drew to a close, racial conflict flared over the entire South, and though I did not witness any of it, I could not have been more thoroughly affected by it if I had participated directly in every clash. The war itself had been unreal to me, but I had grown able to respond emotionally to every hint, whisper, word, inflection, news, gossip, and rumor regarding conflicts between the races. Nothing challenged the totality of my personality so much as this pressure of hate and threat that stemmed from the invisible whites. I would stand for hours on the doorsteps of neighbors' houses listening to their talk, learning how a white woman had slapped a black woman, how a white man had killed a black man. It filled me with awe, wonder, and fear, and I asked ceaseless questions. One evening I heard a tale that rendered — Richard Wright

From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people. — Janio Quadros

Freedom is not in doing what you want to do, but in becoming what you want to be. — Ardis Whitman

I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them. — Tod Machover

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be. — Paul Arden

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret. — Eartha Kitt

My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our driveway in Vail. Of course, they were holding on to me the whole time, but that was my first experience 'skiing.' — Mikaela Shiffrin

We're leading people to Jesus, not to ourselves or to our awesome church. Keeping the focus on Christ ensures that genuine life change happens and lasts. — Carey Nieuwhof

Like most healthy men he thought that any illness was death — Angela Thirkell

Until they become conscious, they will never rebel — George Orwell

It has always been my belief that, for everyone who is ready and willing, there is a place. it seems to wait for him or her, in some good human cause. Causes are man-made, to be sure, and in the long run, I believe man can control the destiny of civilization on this earth. And yet I know that, beyond it all, there is an everlasting purpose, and within each one of us there is that lonely something that links us with Divinity. The link is there, to be used or disregarded. Each must make his own choice. p.117-118 — Wilder Penfield

I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role. — Gary Carr

Did Jesus suffer for his lack of faith? Was he "smitten by God" because he was a bad person or because he didn't love the Father? No. God's path for Christ took him through the valley of the shadow of death. It was Jesus' obedience to God, not his disobedience, that led him there. And like Job's misguided friends who assumed Job was suffering because he had done something wrong, we mistakenly assume that our Christian brothers and sisters, or even we ourselves, are suffering because we've failed God. More often than not, it's just the opposite. — Will Davis Jr.

So, Doc, will I be able to run the Boston Marathon again this year? — Fannie Flagg