Quotes & Sayings About Getting To Know Me Before You Judge Me

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally. — Bharati Mukherjee

If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me. — Tori Amos

The master sees beyond what is obvious. He sees the unseen, feels the unfelt, and hears the unheard. He looks below the surface for what is hidden and so finds the great heartbeat of the Universe. He smiles, knowing it is his heartbeat, your heartbeat, our heartbeat. — Wu Wei

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Who says we need the walls back up? You're roaches, we're Raid. We'll get rid of you eventually. — Karen Marie Moning

I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void. — Fred Ward

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? — Philip Sidney

Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out. — Lydia Sigourney

If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong people to the table - how on earth can we think the Communion meal now is for the extra holy or the super spiritual? To say we need to be completely cleaned up before Communion is like saying we need to get well so we can take our medication. — Jonathan Martin

He shot me a cocky smile. "Definitely dibbs." I rolled my eyes because my brother was stupidly stubborn. "Dude, she's not the front seat of mom's old minivan. — Rachel Higginson

Do you smoke? Jack. Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell. I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is. — Oscar Wilde

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes. — Richard Dawkins

It's always possible for human beings to spoil their own peace of mind — Charlaine Harris