Sanneren Quotes & Sayings

In 1960, when a survey asked American adults whether it would "disturb" them if their child married a member of the other political party, no more than 5 percent of either party answered "yes." But in 2010, 33 percent of Democrats and 40 percent of Republicans answered "yes." In fact, partyism, as some call it, now beats race as the source of divisive prejudice. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries. — Gaston Bachelard

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet. — Christiaan Huygens

Men create the gods in their own image. — Xenophanes

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man. — William Ernest Henley

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity. — Pope Francis

He likes to think of himself as someone who can give quick clever answers to awkward questions. It is an important part of his self-esteem. — Glenn Haybittle

I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect. — Jaron Lanier

Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite. — Kenny Smith

Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the World which others, who are adrift upon it, know. — Peter Ackroyd

A man ought to look up to a woman, literally or figuratively, because that is the proper mode of worship, and worship is the very least he can do. — Loretta Chase

I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them. — Nas

If somebody tole you, hit could be a lie. But if you dream hit, hit can't be a lie case ain't nobody there to tole hit to you — William Faulkner

Good night. What? Those ladies behind those windows? Dream, monsieur, cheap dream, a trip to the Indies! Those persons perfume themselves with spices. You go in, they draw the curtains, and the navigation begins. The gods come down onto the naked bodies and the islands are set adrift, lost souls crowned with the tousled hair of palm trees in the wind. Try it. — Albert Camus