Profligately Def Quotes & Sayings

The difference between educated people and uneducated people is that educated people have been opened up to the notion that you can disagree without fighting; whereas uneducated people, in conversation, seek to always agree
everybody agrees and agrees and that's considered basic social libation. — John McWhorter

The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies into the sky, leaving the crowd staring in astonishment. Angels fly away in two directions. Half make a black storm of moving, twisting shapes. The other half forms a white-as-snow moving cloud. The ranks are divided. — Laura Kreitzer

Beauty was devised by someone very insecure to rob others of the happiness he or she couldn't feel. It was a dick move, to be honest. — Durjoy Datta

Because life is a gift. — Kim Holden

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class. — Carly Fiorina

All beliefs are equally valid. — Alaric Hutchinson

The public," he said, "bless them. It's the same in tailoring: they always think they know more about your job than you do, and then you get the blame when it ends up looking a mess." He — K.J. Parker

As immigrant artists for whom so much has been sacrificed, so many dreams have been deferred, we already doubt so much. Who do we think we are? We think we are people who risked not existing at all. People who might have had a mother and father killed, either by a government or nature, even before we were born. Some of us think we are accidents of literacy. I do. — Edwidge Danticat

Knowledge is superior to miracles. — Sunday Adelaja

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing. — Joni Eareckson Tada

That water's colder'n hell!"
That's what makes it good. That's what makes it help all your bruises'n bumps'n stuff."
It's colder'n a goddam witch's tit in there! — Daniel Woodrell