Minling Quotes & Sayings

The problem with common sense is, it isn't. — Benjamin Franklin

At the end of things, The Blessed will say, "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven." And the lost will say, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truly. — C.S. Lewis

Does that matter at this stage?" shouted Arthur. — Douglas Adams

But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive. — Randall Munroe

You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise. — Mark Skousen

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery. — Tanith Lee

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness - that primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic. — Adrienne Rich

She's the woman who stole my heart right out from me before I even realized she had her hands on it. — K.A. Tucker

I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to. — Sarah Kay

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form. — Viola Davis

The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists. — L. Ron Hubbard