Quotes & Sayings About Finding Someone Who Treats You Right

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction ... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are. — Ben Carson

My own personality, which was molded by the furnace of time and circumstances ... strengthened by the touchstone of varied experiences, has changed a bit due to the benevolence and graciousness of people around me but I have never felt trapped in the nets of influence. — Balroop Singh

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. — Maya Lin

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to. — Joe Zawinul

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action — Martin Luther King Jr.

And for this imperfect immortality, what prices have been paid? How many livers, lungs, and veins? Shredded, polluted, shot? How many children deserted, family secrets betrayed, sordid trysts laid out for strangers to see? How many wives and husbands shoved to the side? How many ovens scorched with our hair? Gun barrels slid between our lips? Bathtubs slowly reddened by our blood and twisting drowned that drowned us? How many flawed pages burned in disgust and reduced to ashes? How many flawless moments observed from just a slight distance so that, later, we might reduce them to words? All with an unspoken prayer that these hard-won truths might outlast the brief years of our lives. — Kristopher Jansma

i am
a lioness
who is no longer
afraid to let the world
hear her
roar

-an ode to me — Amanda Lovelace

The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point? — Carew Papritz

Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forward, frightened of going back. — Liz Curtis Higgs