Hypersegregated Quotes & Sayings

I was pretty sure everyone was praying for different things. I wondered how Allah would sort it all out. — Nadia Hashimi

She made room for the discarded foot on the table, setting it up like a shrine amid the wrenches and lug nuts, before — Marissa Meyer

If you must know, he said 'my goodness me, a walking potato — Terry Pratchett

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter. — Andrew Delbanco

When adults ignore their children's feelings, children come to believe their feelings are not important. When we repeatedly threaten or punish children for a display of emotion, children learn that emotions are dangerous things that need to be held inside and hidden - an invitation to later depression or rage. — Linda Lantieri

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination. — Gretchen Rubin

You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

And the ... ' [Mulder] stumbled several times, making [Scully] smile, before he managed, 'Sangre Viento?'
He winced when he heard himself; his Spanish was still lousy. — Charles Grant

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today. — Jonathan Kozol

Call it precious and go to hell, but I believe a story can be wrecked by a faulty rhythm in a sentence - especially if it occurs toward the end - or a mistake in paragraphing, even punctuation. Henry James is the maestro of the semicolon. Hemingway is a first-rate paragrapher. From the point of view of ear, Virginia Woolf never wrote a bad sentence. I don't mean to imply that I successfully practice what I preach. I try, that's all. — Truman Capote

If life's pen; passion is ink! — Israelmore Ayivor

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness. — Christina Stead

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. — Benjamin Franklin

When the road gets dark - And you can no longer see - Just let my love throw a spark - And have a little faith in me. — John Hiatt

It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway. — Leonard Cohen