Revisioning History Quotes & Sayings

When everything comes easily to you, it never challenges you to change. — Katie Kacvinsky

If Eleanor tried to kiss Park, it would be real-life version of some little girl making her Barbie kiss Ken. Just smashing their faces together. — Rainbow Rowell

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything. — Jonathan Kozol

A lot of us don't get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things. — Boots Riley

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. — Horace

How, exactly, did I kill him? He died on the golf course." One minute he'd been practicing his swing, and in the next - phzzt - a freak lightning bolt had hit him right in the nine iron. His shoes were still smoking when she reached him. — Cheryl Sterling

Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice. — Virginia Woolf

Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier, and fight for love? Do you wanna travel the world? Do you wanna be a diver for pearls? Or climb the mountain, and touch the clouds above? Be anyone you want to be. Bring to life your fantasies. But I want something in return, I want you to burn, burn for me, baby. Like a candle in the night. Oh burn, burn for me, burn for me. — Jo Dee Messina

Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul's life is gone. — Sophocles

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels. — Ben Bernanke

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11. — Lanford Wilson

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data. — Glenn Greenwald