Lagestee Linda Quotes & Sayings

She likes to quote the opening words of the Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union." Beautiful, yes, but as she always points out, "we the people" originally left out a lot of people. "It would not include me," RBG said, or enslaved people, or Native Americans. Over the course of the centuries, people left out of the Constitution fought to have their humanity recognized by it. RBG sees that struggle as her life's work. — Irin Carmon

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success. — Henry David Thoreau

The Queen is dead and gone. Well, at least she's gone ... for now. Long live Alice! Long live Wonderland. — Cheshire Cat

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity. — N. T. Wright

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected. — Roman Payne

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote. — John Taliaferro

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy. — Edward Abbey

I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head. — Jamaica Kincaid

Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me. — Charles Bukowski

Consciousness is the most conspicuous obstacle to a comprehensive naturalism that relies only on the resources of physical science. The existence of consciousness seems to imply that the physical description of the universe, in spite of its richness and explanatory power, is only part of the truth, and that the natural order is far less austere than it would be if physics and chemistry accounted for everything. If we take this problem seriously, and follow out its implications, — Thomas Nagel

In solitude all great things are born. — Moses Harvey

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto. — Donald Tusk