Flaviana Axe Quotes & Sayings

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. — Mortimer Adler

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that. — Michael Sheen

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I was a really pretentious teenager. — Rebecca Hall

Neither light nor heat could withstand it; to gaze into that nullity and to comprehend its scope was to have one's humanity snuffed. Only the inhuman thrived in out there in deep black. — Laird Barron

Hours are golden links, God's token
Reaching heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done. — Adelaide Anne Procter

To condemn slavery was one thing - that I could do in my own individual heart - but female ministers! — Sue Monk Kidd

A 1967 New York Times editorial declared Milwaukee "America's most segregated city." A supermajority in both houses had helped President Johnson pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but legislators backed by real estate lobbies refused to get behind his open housing law, which would have criminalized housing discrimination. It took Martin Luther King Jr. being murdered on a Memphis balcony, and the riots that ensued, for Congress to include a real open housing measure later that year in the 1968 Civil Rights Act, commonly called the Fair Housing Act. — Matthew Desmond