Reddets Quotes & Sayings

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit. — Jerome Cady

The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything's on its head, it's a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction ... — Thomas Pynchon

It seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

Global food insecurity is increasing ... the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing. — Lester R. Brown

It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule. — Roxane Gay

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher

I reckon if there's ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it. And I reckon they would be for man's good. Leastways, we would have to like them. Leastways, we might as well go on and make like we did. — William Faulkner

I can understand bitchiness in any language. — Richelle Mead

York boss William Barnes issued an acid personal attack: "Mr. Roosevelt's departure for Chicago was inevitable. Undignified as it is, and impotent as it will prove to be, its chief interest lies in the disclosure of the mania for power over which Mr. Roosevelt has no control." The people of Chicago greeted the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt quite differently; word that Roosevelt was en route drove the city "plum crazy" with excitement. Ordinary business was suspended as tens of thousands made plans to celebrate Roosevelt's arrival. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

There's a jangle to the music of the dead. I mean that certain something that's so happy and so sad at the same time. The notes almost make a perfect harmony, but don't. Then they do but quickly crash into dissonance. They simmer in that sweet in-between rhythm section rattling along all the while. Chords collapse chaotically into one another and just when you think it's gonna spill into total nonsense, it stands back up and comes through sweet as a lullaby on your mami's lips. Songs that'll make people tap their feet and drink melancholically but not realize the twisting genius lurking within until generations later. — Daniel Jose Older

Stop the negativity and control our creativity — KRS-One

It did not occur to me at the time that her radiance had a spiritual dimension, owing nothing to the values of the temporal world. — Jennifer Worth

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town. — Daniel Radcliffe