Scierie Ste Sophie Quotes & Sayings

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity. — Paul Fleischman

It was impossible. It was like something out of The Matrix. I don't know what-all sounds were involved, but my spouse says she hurried in and there was popcorn all over the couch and I was down on one knee and my eyeballs looked like novelty-shop eyeballs. — David Foster Wallace

The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it happen, then you're a victim. You're no longer a man when you know something is happening and you don't stand up. So that's just how we raised. — Ice Cube

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet. — Philip Yancey

Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success. — Tim Hudson

David Foster Wallace: I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me. — David Lipsky

To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past. — Jose Rizal

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. — Eric Hoffer

They washed their hands in one basin. Clare touched hers under the water. "Which are my fingers and which are yours?" he said, looking up. "They are very much mixed." "They are all yours," said she, very prettily, — Thomas Hardy

The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it. — Wendy Mass

It is a scientific fact that time is infinitely divisible, that each moment contains within it the fragments of a thousand others, and each of them can be splintered into a thousand more, and so on and so on. — Daniel Polansky

We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take the 1964 platform and adopt it? — Tim Wirth

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result. — Gloria Steinem