Jaquita Person Taylor Quotes & Sayings

You will always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere:
there is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you've wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you've destroyed it everywhere else in the world — Constantine P. Cavafy

When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it. — David Baldacci

[Act 5, Scene 4, ROSALIND] If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell. — William Shakespeare

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief. — Adyashanti

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. — Jean Rhys

With this understanding of love's meaning it is clear that more often than not slavery made it all but impossible for black people to love one another. When emotional ties were established between individuals, when children were born to enslaved mothers and fathers, these attachments were often severed. No matter the tenderness of connection, it was often overshadowed by the trauma of abandonment and loss. — Bell Hooks

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. — Richard M. Nixon

In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses. — Nancy Pearcey

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing. — Paulo Coelho

My mission is to eradicate poverty. — Dilma Rousseff

I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me. — Paul Laus

It seems to me that everything dates from that aborted affair. — Henry Miller

Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood. — Theodor Adorno