Lendrum Saxony Quotes & Sayings

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again. — Henry Louis Gates

Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else? — Ian MacKaye

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change. — Susan Powter

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. — Andrew Cuomo

You cannot win an election without a fight. — Tony Abbott

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures. — William Barrett

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior. — Anne Lamott

When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions. — Martin Parr

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin

Recognizing that I had understood something that evening: the banality of one's own death, so much less terrible than the death of someone you love; — Adam Nicolson

Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it at all costs. Direct your thoughts in wholesome paths. Remember your covenants and be faithful in temple attendance. — Dallin H. Oaks

The Greek word "nostalgia" derives from the root nostros, meaning "return home," and algia, meaning "longing." Doctors in seventeenth-century Europe considered nostalgia an illness, like the flu, mainly suffered by displaced migrant servants, soldiers, and job seekers, and curable through opium, leeches, or, for the affluent, a journey to the Swiss Alps. Throughout time, such feeling has been widely acknowledged. The Portuguese have the term saudade. The Russians have toska. The Czechs have litost. Others too name the feeling: for Romanians, it's dor, for Germans, it's heimweh. The Welsh have hiraeth, the Spanish mal de corazon. Many — Arlie Russell Hochschild

I'm the oldest out of five. — Jamie Anne Allman

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance. — Donald O. Clifton

Don't be content with your judgments. They diminish you. — Walter E. Jacobson