Privilegiar Quotes & Sayings

We live by faith. Our fate is in the hands of the faithful God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your head is full of kelp. — Rick Riordan

Dreams then were to be expressed in building railroads and factories, in boring gas wells, stringing telegraph poles. There was room for no other dream and since father could not do any of these things he was an outlaw in his community. The community tolerated him. His own sons tolerated him. — Sherwood Anderson

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. — W.C. Fields

I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections. — Barack Obama

Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained. — G.K. Chesterton

Raisins again. I like raisins, but I have a habit of losing one or two on the floor every time I eat them. I always find them later and think they are: a) a mouse turd or b) a cockroach. Then I figure out it's a raisin and sigh with relief. This pretty much happens every time I find a lost raisin. — Julie Halpern

About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one. — Earl Nightingale

Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it. — Samuel L. Jackson

I traveled from city to city in those days, and the view from within the ghettos was terrible and terrifying. While white people in the periphery were arming themselves against the day when they would have to defend themselves from attack by blacks (and really believed someone was fomenting a racial war in which black people would rise up and attack them), black people mostly without arms huddled inside the ghettos feeling that they were surrounded by armed whites. — John Howard Griffin