Secrett Melanin Quotes & Sayings

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years. — Samuel Goldwyn

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories. — Peter Gallagher

Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us. — Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. — Benjamin E. Mays

It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora — Jay Crownover

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized. — Benigno Aquino III

Not just Ricky, all my past relationships with men had been like a spate of pesky diseases - each more formidable than the other. It was almost as if I had run a 'sucky boyfriends marathon' or something, and won. — Shuchi Singh Kalra

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands. — Ovid

Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats.
(1994) p. 99 — Philip K. Howard

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl. — William Cowper