Manatts Davenport Quotes & Sayings

Pain helps the body grow.
Riddles help the mind grow.
Loss helps the heart grow.
Temptations help the soul grow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway? — Joe Posnanski

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians ... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies. — Franz Liszt

If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell. — C.S. Lewis

Because as Europe and the United States become more diverse, it creates an anxiety, a racial anxiety, that is reflected in declining support for public space, public institutions, public infrastructure, and public education. — John A. Powell

We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers. — David Lloyd

The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there's another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your reach. — Rebecca Solnit

If we'd just been fighting their army without the general, we might, just MIGHT have had a chance. But with him ... ?' The big man shrugged, then stood to leave. 'But that's defeatist talk. And I've got a fyrd to help train. I'll see you tonight at dinner, Maggie. — Stuart Hill

Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

That one small noise brought back the old days to the children's minds more than anything that had happened yet. All the battles and hunts and feasts came rushing into their heads together. — C.S. Lewis

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope. — Jean Paul

Cruelties should be committed all at once. — Niccolo Machiavelli

However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful. — Ronald Fisher