Godkin Lecture Quotes & Sayings

To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence. — Huineng

The storyless story is a vagina with teeth. — Scarlett Thomas

The BoDs and business leaders must work with the right mindset to make good policies and create an inclusive organization with every dip in the business life cycle. — Pearl Zhu

A book is simply a snap shot of the full story. — Erica Goros

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth. — John Singer Sargent

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression. — Keith Stanfield

What if this - this rule that says what I did in the back room that day is a terrible sin - what if that's just a rule some old white man made up, too? — Robin Talley

For a long time your only entertainment was the pleasure of sunsets. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Why was it not good for man to be alone? If it were only man's loneliness with which God was concerned, he might have provided other companionship. But he provided woman, for she was to be man's helpmeet. She was to act in partnership with him. . . . The Lord God gave woman a different personality and temperament than man. . . .

In the world today there are observed strenuous efforts to distort and desecrate this divine pattern. . . . The conventional wisdom of the day would have you be equal with men. We say, we would not have you descend to that level. More often than not the demand for equality means the destruction of the inspired arrangement that God has decreed for man, woman, and the family. Equality should not be confused with equivalence. — Ezra Taft Benson

I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I read two poems by Gregory Woods ... I admired them especially for their technical virtuosity, in that it was technique completely used, never for the sake of cleverness but as a component of feeling ... What an enviable talent Gregory Woods has — Thom Gunn

I didn't look in Marie's direction. I didn't have time to, because the presiding judge told me in bizarre language that I was to have my head cut off in a public square in the name of the French people... — Albert Camus

Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need. — Max Lucado

[Kwang Jingshu was arrested by the MSS and incarcerated without formal — Max Brooks

Sometimes, the scales of justice find a level of their own, without our help ... And sometimes, in seeking justice, we don't always serve it. — Susanna Kearsley

A master like Raoul looks for a woman whose need to serve and submit matches his need to protect and take command. — Cherise Sinclair