Peremptorily Challenged Quotes & Sayings

To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. — Harry S. Truman

Men's resistance often grows out of their fear
fear that everything is going to change, that women's gain is their loss, that women will 'turn the tables on them.' Men need to become aware, but blaming them doesn't help. It only polarizes. Eventually I came to see that what's need is to invite them into our struggle, to make them part of our quest. — Sue Monk Kidd

And leave me alone when I tell ya to. I will have things to do that are private. I cannot always have you trailing around with me like a strand of goose grass. — Ruth Downie

Most people think confidence lies in an excessive rehearsal. It's true that man has to prepare, plan and practice before projecting his purposes. But a time must definitely arrive when man has to put an end to learning and rehearsal and start practicing what he spent time learning. — Israelmore Ayivor

The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status — Nathanael Kanyinga

Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.' — Geraldine Brooks

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming — Matthew Arnold

We face many crossroads in our lives. God wants us to be that beacon of faith to those around us. He shows us his love like a rainbow on a sunrise. He helps lift us up when we fall. For our stay in this world is just a short time. A pass over from here to his loving arms. Like the morning star, he will guide us along our way. — Phil Mitchell

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social. — William Labov

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time. — William Shatner

Our imagination goes ahead of us, bringing our yesterday's imagings into present realities. — Ogwo David Emenike

Jesus declared that we should have one distinguishing mark: not political correctness or moral superiority, but love. — Philip Yancey

It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples. (7th February 1945) — Adolf Hitler