Landowning Blacks Quotes & Sayings

We could look at the side of wonder. — Melina Marchetta

It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings, for instance, have a phrase that describes this phenomenon, 'The other man's grass is always greener.'
The Shaltanac race of Broopkidren 13 had a similar phrase, but since their planet is somewhat eccentric, botanically speaking, the best they could manage was, 'The other Shaltanac's joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet.' And so the expression soon fell into disuse, and the Shaltanacs had little option but to become terribly happy and contented with their lot, much to the surprise of everyone else in the Galaxy who had not realized that the best way not to be unhappy is not to have a word for it. — Douglas Adams

To establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. We need to know - and, of course, we must also understand how to make productive use of - a great many truths. — Harry G. Frankfurt

You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you. — Frederick Lenz

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline. — Lucy Hawking

I really don't like talking about diets. — Bess Myerson

South Korea's property losses were — Don Oberdorfer

Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace. — Dean Koontz

You can live here as you expect to live there. — Marcus Aurelius

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships. — Joyce Meyer

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see. — Robert Browning

Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promises a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing. — Milton Friedman

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I've never studied psychology. — Hayao Miyazaki