Faict Quotes & Sayings

You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Often the most powerful men in a state can pass down a street unrecognized, while the most famous bask in feted impotence — Robert Harris

Because it's a fucking disaster to be creative when you know you're not Mozart or Keats. Dammit, I got tired of scratching around in my past. There's nothing in me to justify the pretension of creativity. This came before anything, before you, before Raquel, this is a matter of my own emptiness, my awareness of my own limits, maybe my sterility. Does what I'm saying to you seem awful? Now you want to come along and sell me an illusion, which I don't believe in but which does make me believe that either you're a fool or you underestimate my intelligence. Why don't you just leave me alone, so I can fill the emptiness in my own way? Let me see things for myself, learn if something can still grow in my soul, an idea, a faith, because I swear to you, Laura, my soul is more desolate than this rock landscape you see here ... why? — Carlos Fuentes

I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog. — S.E. Hinton

I have a Russian heart. — Maria Sharapova

Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life - an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice? — Lisa Wingate

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number. — Alexander Hamilton

So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done.
[Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.] — Francois Rabelais