Kingstons Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. — Chuck Schumer

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community. — Philip Yancey

Do not respond to people being upset by confidently giving them advice on how to solve their problems — Ezra Klein

The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance. — Edward Snowden

I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I don't find that look attractive on women and I don't want to become part of that trend. It's unhealthy and it puts too much pressure on women in general who are being fed this image of the ideal, which it is not. I think America has become obsessed with dieting rather than focusing on eating well, exercising and living a healthy life. I also think that being ultra-thin is not sexy at all. Women shouldn't be forced to conform to unrealistic and unhealthy body images that the media promote. I don't need to be skinny to be sexy. — Scarlett Johansson

Consciousness precedes phenomenon, and therefore consciousness can alter phenomenon. — Shai Tubali

I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg. — Jasper Fforde

Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die ... — Michael Jackson

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God. — Saint Augustine

Armies aren't very good about carrying libraries with them. I can't imagine why. We'd fight so much less if everyone would juste sit down and read — Cynthia Hand