Mary Ellen Pleasant Quotes & Sayings

Recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book ... — Umberto Eco

The motivation to make a "Wow!" impression is not to better everyone else in town. It's not about stroking our egos, pleased with how excellent we are. "Wow!" impressions matter because people matter. What they think matters. What they believe matters. What they want matters. What they need matters.
First — Mark L. Waltz

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?. — Horace

If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate. — Brandon Sanderson

I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old. — Sonu Nigam

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived. — G.K. Chesterton

I've done nothing with my life but write plays. — Israel Horovitz

I'm glad we will not be forced to live by your quill, because I am rather used to having food on the table. But, I appreciate the effort behind those words. — Cynthia Hand

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change. — Samantha Morton

and from the enactment in 1890 of the Sherman Act, the first of the great federal antitrust statutes. And — E. Allan Farnsworth

18 So that day Jehovah made this covenant with Abram: "I have given this land to your descendants from the Wadi-el-Arish[*] to the Euphrates River. 19-21 And I give to them these nations: Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, Jebusites. — Anonymous

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. — Marcus Aurelius

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people. — Elena Kagan