Peices Quotes & Sayings

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary. — Gwen Ifill

There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight. — Charles Haynes

The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth. — Jim Tully

Safe. No one ever is. No matter how hard we try. No matter how much we plan and prepare. There will always be an enemy at the door and a storm trying to knock us down. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the peices after it's all over and carrying on. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it. — Rush Limbaugh

Who needs a 12th System when you have a heart like Cassie Sullivans's? — Rick Yancey

It has been my experience that the only person who enjoys a meeting is the person who calls it so they can look important and boss everyone around. — Jinx Schwartz

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question. — Clive Owen