Oquin Lock Quotes & Sayings

While reading the (acceptance) letter, I thought about Paul White. Having an advocate on the inside - someone who had gotten to know me on a personal level - had obviously helped. It made me think deeply about the way privilege and preference work in the world, and how many kids who didn't have "luck" like mine in this instance would find themselves forever outside the ring of power and prestige. So many opportunities in this country are apportioned in this arbitrary and miserly way, distributed to those who already have the benefit of a privileged legacy. — Wes Moore

It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the speed your blood ran through you, how it made you dream in kaleidoscope color. It was that Trixie knew she couldn't have loved Jason this hard if he hadn't loved her that way too. — Jodi Picoult

Absofuckinglutely. — Julie James

It was a kiss meant to set her ablaze. And as always, it worked. — Donna Grant

You can't have capitalism without racism. — Malcolm X

There's just nothing like playing on Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's truly amazing. — Caroline Wozniacki

Winter makes me want to rage. You know how there's road rage? I feel like in New York or upstate New York, you're just like, 'Dammit,' because you're so cold. — Liza Lapira

You know this is called self-pity. You don't care. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs. — Philip Pullman

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships. — Thucydides

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you. — Mary Kay Ash

My mother thinks some disaster has happened if I don't return a phone call from her within twenty-four hours. It's hard to explain that the only chance to return the call will be when a disaster ISN'T happening, stormy being the prevailing climate with surprise outbreaks of calm. — Allison Pearson

As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. — Hippocrates

The exercise really had a lot less to do with water survival than with deliberate teamwork. — Chris Hadfield

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. — Adam McKay