Secondlines Quotes & Sayings

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. — Mencius

God ever arithmetizes. — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

I try to keep my promises. — Alan Grayson

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sat mindless and eternal on the kitchen floor, stony of head and solemn, playing with my fingers. Time streamed in full flood beside me on the kitchen floor; time roared raging beside me down its swollen banks; and when I woke I was so startled I fell in. — Annie Dillard

Power is never taken from us. It is only given away," Austen said softly. — Kirsten Beyer

I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis. — Rachel Bilson

I am tired of having hands
she said
I want wings
But what will you do without your hands
to be human?
I am tired of human
she said
I want to live on the sun - — Louise Gluck

Some people around us are energy vampires while others are energy boosters. Our bodies resonate like a tuning fork, that's why their vibration impacts our own vibration. — Hina Hashmi

It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America. — Jay Severin

Like regret in the shadow of trees and in the glow of an anarchist's suit collection — Markus Zusak

Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder. — Garry McCarthy

I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all." — Hillary Clinton

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city
a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has cultivated and supported a generous, subversive, and unique culture of vivid beauty. From jazz, blues, and and hip-hop to secondlines, Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals, and the citywide tradition of red beans and rice on Monday nights, New Orleans is a place of art and music and food and traditions and sexuality and liberation. — Jordan Flaherty

The only fear I have is to fear to get out of the will of God.
Outside of the will of God, there's nothing I want, and in the will
of God there's nothing I fear, for God has sworn to keep me in
His will. If I'm out of his will that's another matter. But if I'm in His
will, He's sworn to keep me. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson. — Grace Hightower