Joseph Lumpkin Quotes & Sayings

If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer. — Randolph M. Nesse

I've always been able to write rhymes and that would be like when you consult with your girl. When I'm mad and s - t like that I would throw headphones on and close my room door, when I'm mad I just close the door with my girl and f - k her. In so many different ways hip-hop has been like my girl and it's always been there to hold me down. — Joell Ortiz

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery — Mother Jones

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series. — Frank Bruno

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. — Joyce Carol Oates

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists. — George Bernard Shaw

Me getting in your bed was the first step, T. My presence in your bed was my way of telling you I was all in, because I knew," his voice, long gone hoarse, cracked, "I knew you were an all-in kinda guy, so I took the leap. Jumped for you. But you ran from me. — Avril Ashton

All it takes is consciously remembering that we need to include others in our reality. — Shawn Achor

Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in. — Edward Bernays

God is an idea, the devil is us. — Joe R. Lansdale

Both men and angels were given the highest gift in the universe, that of free will. We have the power of choice. Evil resides within the problem of choice. It is free will that convicts us. We are guilty of being evil because we can choose good. Free will is the very foundation of love, and the cornerstone of evil. — Joseph B. Lumpkin

When outcomes are uncertain, most of us spend a great deal of energy ruminating, worrying, and second-guessing ourselves. Not only is this a waste of time, but it makes us less likely to succeed — Melanie Greenberg

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed — David A. Bednar

Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible. — Douglas Rushkoff