Kru Nice Quotes & Sayings

the idea that ethnicity is in some sense an essential or primordial feature is, at least some of the time, disputable, and its use is, much of the time, disreputable. — Christopher Grant Smith

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham

According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist. — Josh Fox

Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. — Pema Chodron

But nothing will ever change if we keep pretend. People 'live out loud', as you say, not merely for themselves but for a more honest future. — Jax Garren

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is. — Indira Gandhi

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need. — Ross Macdonald

Men in charge. The man complained of will not be there tomorrow, and you will have a seat with the other passengers.' This somewhat relieved me. I had, of course, no intention of proceeding against the man who had assaulted me, and so the chapter of the assault closed there. In the morning Isa Sheth's man took me to the coach, I got a good seat and reached Johannesburg quite safely that night. Standerton is a small village and Johannesburg a big city. Abdulla Sheth had wired to Johannesburg also, and given me the name and address of Muhammad Kasam Kamruddin's firm there. Their man had come to receive me at the stage, but neither did I see him nor did he recognize me. So I decided to go to a hotel. I knew the names — Mahatma Gandhi

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman. — Tupac Shakur

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you. — Frank Auerbach

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from age to age. — Kelly Miller

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves. — V.S. Naipaul

You know, there was a part of me that was so defiant, and a part of me that was so ashamed, and I really couldn't say which was which at any given point in time. — Courtney Eldridge

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction. — John Bunyan