Shalah Collins Quotes & Sayings

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen
different doors and to those who are still in the hall. — C.S. Lewis

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins. — Ben Jonson

Like slavery, other human rights crimes have resulted in the loss of millions of lives. But only slavery, with its sadistic patience, asphyxiated memory, and smothered cultures, has hulled empty a whole race of people with inter-generational efficiency. Every artifact of the victims' past cultures, every custom, every ritual, every god, every language, every trace element of a people's whole hereditary identity, wrenched from them and ground into a sharp choking dust. It is a human rights crime without parallel in the modern world. For it produces its victims ad infinitum, long after the active stage of the crime has ended. — Randall Robinson

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside the box do it not to puff themselves up, but to see how small they really are. As a contented fish in its fish tank appears to have a small, boring existence to us, imagine a larger, more perceptive kingdom (even by scientific taxonomy) to whom our contented existences may appear to be small and boring. This is where true creativity and massive perceptive abilities spawn a sense of intellectual humility; the kind which God adores. — Criss Jami

If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it. — John Ruskin

For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How — Amor Towles

Someone's on the rag," she chides, then grabs her crotch as if adjusting a cup. "And it's not me. — Barry Lyga

By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there. — Francis Of Assisi

Cultivate clarity, strength, vitality and power from natural, beautiful and organic living foods. — Bryant McGill

There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things. — W. Somerset Maugham

People who relax by watching TV instead of going out to engage with the world tend to be far less energetic. the benefits of exercise in protecting against depression and mental ill-health are huge. Those around you can also affect your energy levels. Self-talk also works wonders on energy levels. — Liz Miller

There is beauty when something
works and it works intuitively. — Jonathan Ive

I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone. — Angie Stone

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically. — Romeo Miller

At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly ever necessary, since the social context is so far from neutral. To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner. — Joanna Russ