Plaisent Quotes & Sayings

President Obama's election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I'm more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible. — Tasha Smith

Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and must be reckoned with soberly. They cannot be laughed away, nor always successfully stormed at, nor easily abolished by act of legislature. And yet they must not be encouraged by being let alone. They must be recognized as facts, but unpleasant facts; things that stand in the way of civilization and religion and common decency. They can be met in but one way - by the breadth and broadening of human reason, by catholicity of taste and culture. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being. — Rumi

Mase was trying to make the cops take him to jail, or possibly kill him, rather than let his brother end his life. More — Leo Sullivan

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber — Andrew Lloyd Webber

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith
contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor and I know that ambition
the desire to succeed
to have power
leads to most ills of the human soul. If the desire is realized it leads to arrogance, violence and final satiety; and if it is denied
ah! if it is denied
let all the asylums for the insane rise up and give their testimony! The are filled with human beings who were unable to face being mediocre, insignificant, ineffective and who therefore created for themselves ways of escape from reality so to be shut off from life itself forever. — Agatha Christie

There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in him that he could not remove lest he bleed to death. — Hazel B. West

Conscience is the chamber of justice. — Origen