Precipitating Event Quotes & Sayings

Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems. — Shawn Amos

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. — Emma Thompson

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. — Francis Bacon

My home ... It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. — Michel De Montaigne

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel

I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly. — Marco Rubio

I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network. — Bow Wow

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds. — Marianne Williamson

The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago. — James Carlton

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't. — Kid Rock

I guess I just use the word vibe in pretty much everyday context and every sentence I possibly can. Some people find it hilarious, some people find it cool, some people find it infuriating, but ultimately it's coming out of my mouth so as long as i I like the sound of it who cares too much what anyone else thinks? — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold, insipid and complicated codes don't change anything, don't transform anything. All the best social projects and the best political principles are useless if they are not written with the fire of Love. The real revolution is the result of transformation, only the storms of Love can transform the individual and the society. — Samael Aun Weor

Don't think I won't come after you with a wooden spoon, — Molly McAdams