Furudate New Years Quotes & Sayings

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. — Richard Powers

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of. — George W. Bush

Trials aren't meant to harm us but to make us more Christlike. — Andrea Boeshaar

Love is taking care of oneself by freeing one's mind of worries and conducting one self with propriety. — Master Cheng Yen

I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating in its implications. We were always playing on the white man's court, Ray had told me, by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher, or Kurt, wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had power and you didn't. If he decided not to, if he treated you like a man or came to your defense, it was because he knew that the words you spoke, the clothes you wore, the books you read, your ambitions and desires, were already his. Whatever he decided to do, it was his decision to make, not yours, and because of that fundamental power he held over you, because it preceded and would outlast his individual motives and inclinations, any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning. — Barack Obama