Parklarda Quotes & Sayings

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. — Martin Luther King Jr.

We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge. — William Wordsworth

Why are you bringing these things up?" I asked softly.
[ ... ]
Serena still wore that cold smile ... Then, without warning, her face fell and she sighed heavily.
"I'm saying all these things, Amelia, because you're my bestie."
Serena's tone was sincere, but it made me scowl at her. The last time she'd called me "bestie," she'd shoved me over the guardrail of a suspension bridge. That kind of thing could really take the shine out of a word. — Tara Hudson

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live. — Bill Burr

Promotion comes to any nation only the light of the Gospel — Sunday Adelaja

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it. — Benjamin Disraeli

I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Superstitions and eccentric habits are a Western substitute for actual idols. — Edward T. Welch

I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries. — Thomas De Quincey

Fiction is a report from the interior. — Deborah Eisenberg

When you look at that debate stage, Mitt Romney could have dominated it maybe. — Lawrence O'Donnell

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action. — Mark Zuckerberg

Men's vows are women's traitors! — William Shakespeare

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life. — Christian Louboutin

Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids. — Robert H. Frank