Joshua Kennon Quotes & Sayings

I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence. — Donald Glover

I f I were wise I would not have tried to change what I saw. — Neil Gaiman

I'm George Takei, and I'm straight ... up asking you to vote. — George Takei

Voltaire was a smart cookie. — John Perry

For some reason, I'm the guy people love to hate, which I think is weird. People who know me find that very strange, but for some reason, I am. I don't mind being that guy - I have fun with it. — Dave Bautista

The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast. — Chris Fabry

She believes that everyone we meet influences us, that we need to hear their stories to learn more about ourselves. — Gemma Liviero

Together we can do great things. — Mother Teresa

if you sit around thinking about all the bad crap then the world is sure as hell gonna pass you right on by. — Jessica Roe

Given what the stigmatized individual may well face upon entering a mixed social situation, he may anticipatorily respond by defensive cowering. This may be illustrated from an early study of some German unemployed during the Depression, the words being those of a 43-year-old mason: How hard and humiliating it is to bear the name of an unemployed man. When I go out, I cast down my eyes because I feel myself wholly inferior. When I go along the street, it seems to me that I can't be compared with an average citizen, that everybody is pointing at me with his finger. I instinctively avoid meeting anyone. Former acquaintances and friends of better times are no longer so cordial. They greet me indifferently when we meet. They no longer offer me a cigarette and their eyes seem to say, "You are not worth it, you don't work."37 — Erving Goffman

Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request
it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this. — Susan B. Anthony