Historical Aphorism Quotes & Sayings

I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than the rest of the population. That didn't stay very aggressively in the book, but that's how it started. I began to document these moments as support for this other thing I was thinking about, and then the moments themselves began to take over. — Claudia Rankine

He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Until we begin to see each other as ourselves, nothing will change. We are one planet. — Peter Joseph

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

...she doesn't have to choose between being gentle or being fierce. Both exist in nature and both exist in her. That's ok. She'll know to nourish them both and when applicable, use each unapologetically. — Steve Maraboli

The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature. — J.A. Redmerski

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages. — William Shakespeare

Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it. — Iain Sinclair

I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody. — Lionel Messi

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter. — Chris Kirkpatrick

If you put a bunch of chameleons on top of a bunch of chameleons on top of a bowl of Skittles what would happen? Is that science? Because if so, I finally get why people want to do science. — Jenny Lawson