Equiano Middle Passage Quotes & Sayings

Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration ... in the very teeth of winter. — Louise Wilder

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast. — Robert Caro

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. — Walt Whitman

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege. — Doug Henwood

Americans are rather like bad Bulgarian wine; the don't travel well. — Bernard Falk

All German women are beautiful. — Heidi Klum

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change. — Gordon W. Allport

Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?! — Augustus

Weirdly - but as Danny and Amos had suspected - the further the winning number was from the number on a person's lottery ticket, the less regret they felt. "In defiance of logic, there is a definite sense that one comes closer to winning the lottery when one's ticket number is similar to the number that won," Danny wrote in a memo to Amos, summarizing their data. In another memo, he added that "the general point is that the same state of affairs (objectively) can be experienced with very different degrees of misery," depending on how easy it is to imagine that things might have turned out differently.

Regret was sufficiently imaginable that people conjured it out of situations they had no control over. But it was of course at its most potent when people might have done something to avoid it. What people regretted, and the intensity with which they regretted it, was not obvious. — Michael Lewis

There are many benefits to a sports entity breaking news directly to their recipients: the entity has full control over the message and how it is shared versus previously relying on a media outlets to translate or distribute as they choose. Also, there's no quicker place for valuable information to spread than Twitter. — Amy Jo Martin

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone. — Bill De Blasio

Cocaine is yucky. I did it once: I was at a party; I was bored. I was like, 'Alright, I'll do a line.' Then I was just bored longer. — Bonnie McFarlane

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities ... — B.C. Forbes

Its not my job to feed your kids — James Moore

I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years. — Martin Gore