Repurchases Of Common Quotes & Sayings

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact. — Strom Thurmond

And language, ( ... ) is not just another faculty or skill, it is what makes thought possible, what seperates thought from nonthought, what seperates the human from the non human. — Oliver Sacks

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona. — Richard Rohr

I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick", I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living. — Rose Wilder Lane

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less. — P. J. O'Rourke

A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted. — Jean Giraudoux

If faith is being sure of what we hope for, then being unsure of what we hope for is the antithesis of faith, isn't it? — Mark Batterson

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness. — Vincent Starrett

He makes me turn,
he makes me toss;
his words mean mine
are at a loss. — Lang Leav

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls. — Daphne Du Maurier

you look like you smell of
honey and no pain
let me have a taste of that — Rupi Kaur

We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health may be nurtured. Our schooling must not only teach us how to bridge the Niagara River gorge, or the Golden Gate, but must teach us how to bridge the deep gaps of misunderstanding and hate and discord in the world. — Spencer W. Kimball