Nakeisha Rodgers Quotes & Sayings

[Father Dmitry] lived through collectivization, the crushing of the 80 percent of Russians that were peasants. He served as a soldier in World War Two, when millions of peasants died defending the government that had crushed them. He spent eight years in the gulag, the network of labour camps created to break the spirit of anyone who still resisted. He rose again to speak out for his parishioners in the 1960's and 1970's, striving to help young Russians create a freer and fairer society. — Oliver Bullough

I love cheese plates. Though I actually hate cheese plates. Because I can't say no to them. — Seth Meyers

I am a corpse bored with my own funeral. I live like a gypsy, only with less gold and maybe more curses. — Pete Wentz

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm. — Kathryn Bigelow

They're all Tajiks, they have the same Koran, the same faith, but the Kulyabs kill the Pamirs, and the Pamirs kill the Kulyabs. First they'd go out into the city square, yelling, praying. I wanted to understand what was happening, so I went too. I asked one of the old men: "What are you protesting against?" They said: "Against the Parliament. They told us this was a very bad person, this Parliament. — Svetlana Alexievich

We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants [...] Within two hundred years of Europe's first cup, famine and the plague were historical footnotes. Governments became more democratic, slavery vanished, and the standards of living and literacy went through the roof. War became less frequent and more horrible. — Stewart Lee Allen

I've given you my best, why does she get the best of you? — Jennifer Nettles

And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved doesn't make the mistake of loving us again or loving us for the first time. — Brock Clarke

Conception and form are bound together; finding and shaping the words is a matter of finding the appropriate...fit between conception and expression. — Martha C. Nussbaum

I'm a minimalist. I like things to look very clean, I like clean lines. I like everything to be tidy and have space. — Sebastian Clovis

I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google; reminds me of where I want to be sometimes. — George W. Bush