Quotes & Sayings About Getting Refocused

Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave. — Nichelle Nichols

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction. — Arundhati Roy

Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened female
as both auspicious and dangerous. — Srinivasan

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine. — Daniel Handler

I love him to death, there's an Edwardian finishing touch to everything he does. — Helene Hanff

Our budding, still timid press has all the same rendered some service to society, for without it we should never have learned, in any measure of fullness, of those horrors of unbridled will and moral degradation that it ceaselessly reports in its pages, to everyone, not merely to those who attend the sessions of the new open courts granted us by the present reign. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Culture shifts, but the Word of God remains. — Tremper Longman III

A women loves you not for the things you do for her, but for the things she does for you. — Shepherd Mead

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected. — Matthew Henry

Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language. — David Levithan

It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive. — Gene Veith

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux. — Darl McBride

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty, — Tessa Jowell

We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure. — Wes Walz