Lillian And Jack Quotes & Sayings

I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago. — Diablo Cody

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before. — James Otis

The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When I'm in London, it feels like I am that character who is 'Tom Odell.' — Tom Odell

Take the next little step-the smaller you make it, the more likely you'll take it.. — Jill Badonsky

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms. — Ouida

I, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. Your party system is one of your thefts from our Church; your National Convention is our Ecunemic Council; you abdicate reason, as we do, before its decisions; and you yourself Mr. Ratcliffe, you are a Cardinal. — Henry Adams

Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white community. You will face more hate and ridicule and ostracism than you can even begin to fathom. People are willing to accept you if they see you as an outsider trying to assimilate into their world. But when they see you as a fellow tribe member attempting to disavow the tribe, that is something they will never forgive. That is what happened to me in Eden Park. — Trevor Noah

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do. — Barbara Walters

If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival. — N. Katherine Hayles

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance. — Marco Rubio

When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace. — Matthew Henry

I've been blessed. God's looked out for me, so, I'm happy. — Sean Taylor

A knowledge of the interaction of your conscious and subconscious minds will enable you to transform your whole life. — Joseph Murphy

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws. — Robert Dallek