Perseverant People Quotes & Sayings

The hands of Hitler were filthy, but those of the United States were not clean. Our government had accepted, was still accepting, the subordination of black people in what we claimed was a democratic society. Our government threw Japanese families into concentration camps on the racist supposition that anyone Japanese - even if born in this country - could not be allowed to remain free. — Howard Zinn

Little Red Riding Hood drove me nuts; she should have pulled a gun out of her handbag and just shot the damn wolf. — N.L. Wilson

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself — Lewis Mumford

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you. — Spencer W. Kimball

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else. — Hamza Yusuf

I love the train. Sitting here I feel connected to the last time I sat here, and the train to London too. It is in-between, suspended; and in rapid motion towards and away from, it is also poised between. There's a magic in that, not a magic you can work, a magic that's just there, giving a little colour and exhilaration to everything. — Jo Walton

Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know. — Orrin Woodward

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. — George Carlin

We were beginning to understand why, in pre-anaesthetic days, the Bible had stipulated that suicide was a sin. Anything other than the prospect of eternal damnation, and the human race would probably have done away with itself at the first sign of the dentist. — Kate Griffin

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy. — Chuck D

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Best seller material, and she didn't have to write a single word. — A.L. Mabry

I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader. — Allister Coetzee

Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do — Mos Def

I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For about two months the only person I saw was my trainer. Every day I did a lot of running and I just didn't want to talk to anyone for two months. So when I started talking again, it was like you would communicate wrongly, like you wouldn't really remember how to speak. That was one of the key things as well as just reading the book, reading the script a million times, just figuring things out. — Robert Pattinson