Reese Wilkerson Quotes & Sayings

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand. — Stephen Colbert

People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them. — Carolyn Hax

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. — Daniel Libeskind

In the euphoria of victory, Nazis tried to organize a boycott of Jewish shops. This was not very successful at first. But the practice of marking one firm as "Jewish" and another as "Aryan" with paint on the windows or walls did affect the way Germans thought about household economics. A shop marked "Jewish" had no future. It became an object of covetous plans. As property was marked as ethnic, envy transformed ethics. If shops could be "Jewish," what about other companies and properties? The wish that Jews might disappear, perhaps suppressed at first, rose as it was leavened by greed. Thus the Germans who marked shops as "Jewish" participated in the process by which Jews really did disappear - as did people who simply looked on. Accepting the markings as a natural part of the urban landscape was already a compromise with a murderous future. You — Timothy Snyder

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. — Benjamin Disraeli

Curfew was in effect, so of course everyone not human was outside dodging cops. — Kim Harrison

I felt someone behind me. I stopped and looked back ... There was Mom, crawling behind me, without saying anything ... Her tears falling to the floor ... All my suppressed emotions suddenly burst out and I started crying. — Aya Kito

I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television. — Kelly Wearstler

Funny little thing. How could she know that even despair can work for you if you're lucky enough to outlive it. I'd — Wislawa Szymborska