Potentialiser En Quotes & Sayings

It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever. — Bill Holm

Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever. — Jesse Torrey

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity. Wherever you have turned, James, in your short time on this earth, you have been told where you could go and what you could do (and how you could do it) and where you could live and whom you could marry. I know your countrymen do not agree with me about this, and I hear them saying "You exaggerate." They do not know Harlem, and I do. So do you. Take no one's word for anything, including mine- but trust your experience. Know whence you came. — James Baldwin

I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want. — Elsa Peretti

Sturgeons Revelation: 90% of everything is crap — Theodore Sturgeon

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. — W. Somerset Maugham

I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin. — Carre Otis

In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else. — Rand Paul

Some of us feel the need to experience life before bending to the will of an arcane society. — Nicki Elson

It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner. — Barbara Brown Taylor

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies. — Dennis Miller

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it. — Cameron Sinclair

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything. — Lev Grossman

I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game. You're going to hit bad shots, you're going to be in bad spots, and each course, when you learn it, you learn where not to go. — Tiger Woods

There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face. — Richard L. Evans