Paciencia Lenine Quotes & Sayings

With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving. — Robert E.Lee

When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. — Veronica Roth

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. — Pablo Picasso

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. — Russell B. Long

Now, four years out of high school, I'm in an environment where people appreciate personality over appearance, and that makes me happy. — Connor Franta

I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people. — Talib Kweli

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster. — Slash

Yesterday, a beautiful day ... I was talking to [an older] woman who said that she wouldn't want to be me for anything in the world. She wouldn't want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees because she's afraid. Fear is always with us but we just don't have time for it. Not now. HILLARY RODHAM, Wellesley commencement speech, 1969 — Rebecca Traister

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another. — Robert D. Kaplan