Mid Fifties Ford Quotes & Sayings

In view of her present ease, Anais Nin knows that the description of what she was like as a child will be difficult to accept and so will occasion laughter [...] Nin also knows, however, how much we need to believe that such a triumph over handicaps is possible and how much our admiration for an accomplished person can be discouraging rather than encouraging to our own aspirations if we are not reminded of the struggles that preceded that success. Finally, she also knows that the tendency to cling to the idea that the person who exhibits remarkable qualities was invariably born with exceptional talents and advantages may be an inverted way of rationalizing one's own passivity and mediocrity. — Evelyn Hinz

Our past shapes our future whether we realize it or not. Remembering well is as important as doing well." -- Jonita Mullins — Jonita Mullins

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it's theater. Immediate reaction, the second it's done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show. — Orlando Jones

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience. — Charles Spurgeon

The truth feels like it hurts, yet actually it builds. A lie feels like it builds, yet actually it hurts. — Moffat Machingura

I neither require nor desire your gratitude, mistress. I want nothing in these worlds save your death.
Volusian to Eugenie — Richelle Mead

Sexists refer to every female political opinion as "hysterical," just like they refer to every word a woman says when she opens her mouth as "shouting," and for the same reasons - not because the women are actually being loud or unreasonable, but because women are not supposed to have opinions or voices at all. — Sady Doyle

If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation. — Raul Grijalva

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more. — Tupac Shakur

Living is abnormal. — Eugene Ionesco