Michelle Branch Song Quotes & Sayings

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. — William Gilmore Simms

It should be possible to discuss what I have put forward. Sometimes, when it has not been a good lecture, it would need very little, just one question, to put everything straight. However, this question never comes. The group effect in France makes any genuine discussion impossible. And as there is no feedback, the course is theatricalized. My relationship with the people there is like that of an actor or an acrobat. And when I have finished speaking, a sensation of total solitude ... — Michel Foucault

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that. — Billy Sunday

You can not fight "RACISM" when the "MIND" is weak. You can't fight "INJUSTICE" or "CORRUPTION" when you're not a true follower of your soul. You can't fight "OPPRESSION" when you "THINK" and "ACT" like the oppressor. You can't become a "CHANGE" when you keep on accepting the same old results.You can't become a valuable source in society when you devalued your brothers and sisters from distant lands.

It is impossible to change America when you see foul practices at institutions and don't speak up because it is not affecting you. What affect others should affect you mentally and physically, be part of the "HUMAN RACE." Be your brother's/sister's keeper no matter what religion or race he or she is. Be the change that you want to see in America. — Henry Johnson Jr

The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright-and in the long run, that's how it will be. — David Gelernter

I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone. — Kristina Schroder

So that when I came from Panama ... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami. — Ruben Blades

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion. — William C. Brown

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. — Thomas Jefferson

And don't ye be adding any more bows to that. God help ye, it looked like a blind gypsy dropped off a tribute to Herne in your living room. — Rhys Ford

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff. — Auberon Waugh