Savion Byrd Quotes & Sayings

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We've got jihadists. That doesn't mean that all Muslims are problems with respect to terrorism, but there is something going on here. We've got a problem dealing with one aspect of one portion of modern Islam - just as hundreds of years ago the world had a problem with Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition. — James Woolsey

Love me, honey, love me true?
Love me well ez I love you?
An' she answe'd, " 'Cose I do"
Jump back, honey, jump back. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. — Flannery O'Connor

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God. — Timothy Keller

Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett. — Stephen Kinzer

Clever women are hard to intimidate. — Jeffrey Perren

If you can get through middle school without hurting anyone's feelings, that's really cool beans.
-Summer Dawson — R.J. Palacio

Make a better life for yourself and decide today that you will only accept perceptions that are authentic to you and which support your positive growth. — Donnalynn Civello

If you ask me, the hypothetical zenith of gaming technology is direct neural interface - no body to hamper you and your brain is in whatever you want it to be in. Plus it leads to existential uncertainty, which could be entertaining. — Yahtzee Croshaw

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. — Dave Matthews

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference. — Alain De Botton

Am I your special someone? Or just someone special?"
--Janet — Justin Villanueva

Even though it's hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you can do it almost automatically and think about something else, like the meeting that you need to go to today or what's on the radio. — Charles Duhigg

Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited. — Thomas Merton